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Pls make GoOffice signon to formbased secured Cognos Server via double click on environment tree, just like ribbon bar

Problem Description: GoOffice Signon behaviour inconsistent - Signon using RibbonBar = OK - Signon using Right Click on Environment = OK - Double Clicking Environment = NOK Problem Solution: Feedback from dev: This is by design and currently it ca...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Gantt chart visualization tool tip should show start and finish date of BAR

When using standard visualization of Gantt chart, it is not displaying proper dates in tool tip.Currently it shows no. of days since 01/01/1970.Suppose the start date is : 21/07/2015Tooltip will show : Number of days = 21/07/2015 - 01/01/1970 Expe...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Allow audit reporting to contain "re-run" statistics

If a job is scheduled to run multiple times throughout the day, and fails on one of the runs, most people go in and re-run the job. Currently, in the administration panel you can go into the details on the failed job, and check to see if the re-ru...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Validate the prompt default selections and report views saved parameters on report run time for planning analytics packages

When you use planing analytcs as data source and package in reports, member unique names (MUN) are the identifier for PAL elements in reports. For treeprompts there is a default value which will be saved in MUN format. Also when you create report ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

The option that grant "own credentials" to others should be controled by a capability i.e. "Manage own credentials"

Under MyPreferences => Personal => under "Credentials" a user is always able to grant credentials to others, there is not way to deny this feature. For some customer this is a security risk although it does not mean to grant data security cr...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module shortcuts should inherit target navigation paths

Shortcuts are a new feature within a Data Module. Shortcuts should inherit all the attributes of the target object. For example, I can create a shortcut to the Product dimension. The product dimension can be included within a navigation path. Any ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Planned for future release

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

Capability to Hide/Remove Export to Excel option from Workspace

We are looking to secure option to take report Export in Excel/CSV for all BI tools. This would mean that only selected users those are part of a particular user group will be allowed to run report in Excel/CSV. We had raised multiple PMRs and exp...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add functionality to do percent of total in a crosstab when using a relational dB.

Currently this can only be done using a dimensional database. This means that this needs to be calculated in the query and then added to the crosstab.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Unable to leverage saved values in report views in a report booklet

Current product functionality does not allow for the inclusion of multiple report views with different saved prompt values in a report booklet. As confirmed by Report Studio PM:When Merge is selected parameter values that come from the booklet ite...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration