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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Dynamic Drill Through Reports by passing Source Table Name and Filters as the Parameter Value Prompts

Ability to generate Dynamic Drill Through Reports by passing Source Table Name as the Parameter Value Prompts from a Summary Report.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Extend REST API to configure and customize environments

We need a possibility to configure and customize our Cognos environments via REST API. It is not possible for us to do these tasks via Manage-UI, because we have dozens of environments and they should all be configured and customized identically. ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Report Studio: Combining report views with "Report reference" page doesn't provide correct results

(Concerns Report studio page explorer) I am contacting you as we are facing issues when combining report views. We are using the new 10.2.1 functionnality that allows to reference report views in a report to combine them in the execution to have o...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard: Conditional Coloring based on a Data value such as products or items

To keep all the parameters and criteria in a database (Dynamic) not static like all other BI products Can't believe all these conditional formatting are still static
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Would like to be able to use data source credentials as variables in the JDBC connection strings

When using the latest MSSQL driver we can utilize connection parameters: domain=targetdomain;authenticationScheme=NTLM;user=sa;password=thepassword to allow Windows Authentication using a service account other than the one running IBM Cognos servi...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Add support for Secure Network Communication (SNC) for SAP BW namespace and datasource connection

When SAP BW enables SNC (secure network communication) enforcement on their end, Cognos is not able to establish a connection with the existing connection details. Any connection attempts from Cognos error out indicating that SAP BW is expecting t...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Saving new default "run as" parameters for reports

Looking for ability to save default "run as" parameters for reports including run in background, report format (Excel, PDF, etc.), and advanced settings so that users do not have to change these settings every time they run a report.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable additional functionality for bursting: email subject/file name based on burst parameters

Right now, to do this functionality relies on using the Event Studio plus cumbersome configuration to get it to work. Having this available as part of the bursting or scheduling configuration would allow for easy setup and more customization out o...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Ability to copy drill through definition

In current functionality of drill through definition, author needs to repeat the drill through definitions to all the required elements even if the target report and parameters are exactly the same. Authoring interface should provide an option to ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatic fixing of schedule parameter selections when there is change of MUN

Report schedule fails when there is a change in MUN in report parameter selection.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration