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NO WAY TO HIDE OBJECTS IN CIRCULAR MENU

When you hide the report toolbox for a role in customization > features, the (+) in the right pane to create a new object, that circular menu still shows all objects. No way to hide any of those options - List, Crosstab, Text Item, Block and Ta...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Group Repeating Cells - export to Excel as Page Property

We create reports that detail the user-selected prompt choices on a cover page and the actual report on a report page. The cover page consists of a table with two columns: left column are all the prompt choices available, right column consists of ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Be able to have more than 25 Advanced Settings

We now have more than 25 Advanced Settings, but there are only 25 lines that you can enter Advanced Settings and there is not a way to have more lines. Please create an enhancement that allows more then 25 Advanced Settings. Thanks
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Value Prompt: Multi-select and Auto-submit

In Cognos 10.2.1 Fix Pack 3, I could set Auto-submit = Yes and Multi-select = Yes on a value prompt. At some point thereafter, the ability to have that combination was removed. IBM Support has stated that having both of those properties = Yes can ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic setup PDF page - New pdf feature/property that allows the report created using page set when run PDF for certain criteria to appear on the pdf page without causing too much white space at the bottom of pages when there is less data - which occurs when set a static page size for the output

This property will automate the data generation. Currently, for each server that we want to generate data, we have to enter in the report in editing mode and change the PDF page setup property to then run the report (run PDF) and change the proper...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Optimizations of the "Send report by email" dialog

When creating schedules or run a report you can set options for sending report by email. Here are some suggestions for improvement for this dialog: 1) If we enter the first five digits of the user ID and click on 'Search directory', some users wer...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Audit pkg and CM Tool

When auditing, it would be ne nice to create a report that contains the following data set information: date refreshed, size, number of rows, number of columns, and time to refresh. It would help us to troubleshoot any data set refresh errors and ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Data sets based on cross tab

Currently data sets can be created based on "list objects". In many cases a cross-tab is needed and can be a very big help. In eg. Impromptu it was possible to create a "hotfile" based on lists or cross-tab. This option is needed in Analytics data...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Update (or better yet remove) the NSS libraries for Windows

I'm creating this "idea" because I had opened a support case with a company called Deltek concerning one of their products that uses Cognos Analytics. Cognos does not properly report its capability to use higher strength TLS ciphers and signature ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Delivered

Easy means of creating page breaks was removed from Cognos Analytics; Please Add it Back

In C8 and C10 it was very simple to add a page break to your report by clicking on the data item and choosing a menu option. This shortcut was taken away in Cognos Analytics. In CA you must manually create the page set. This is completely inconsis...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration