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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Create from existing data Tile - Present content view with folder navigation.

When using the 'Create' tile from the homepage of Cognos Analytics and then selecting to create a report using existing data. Currently the user is presented with a long list of data sets, data modules and packages that they have access to. The co...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 2 Future consideration

Colour consistency should be definable across all objects, not just within a single dashboard. And we should have attributes on members, not just data items.

Colour consistency is a great feature, ensuring that within a single dashboard all visualisations will show a member with the same colour. But what about if you have a suite of dashboards? What about if you have reports? A user would want the same...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Ability to view multiple values in Tooltip of visualization

I am using a % stack column chart and have multiple measures to be shown as stacked. However, I can only show one data value in the mouse hover over (Tooltip). However, % stack column chart has various other summarization option like % of category...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Future consideration

Allow hidden Fields in visualizations for sorting

Currently the product allows a user to sort visualizations Ascending, Descending or Custom. The custom sort allows the user to pick the values. If user views the report in another language, then the custom sort is no longer respected. The model co...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

Monitoring report pages/dashboard tabs in Audit Database in Cognos Analytics

Monitoring report pages/dashboard tabs in Audit Database in Cognos Analytics : With the possibility of display report pages as tabs, customers like to build reports with multi-pages that display multi-analysis at the same time instead of separated...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Hide tabs according user authorisation

It would be helpful if we could hide certain tabs for certain users. As a use case, we have a dashboard that displays the financial specifics per department, management however needs an overall view of the company wide financials. The departments ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Allow configurability for not displaying informational messages

Enterprise BI customer, ~9000 system users. Two different scenarios that are causing "informational" or "warning" messages are: An authored STANDARD report using full interactivity in CA (11.1.7 FP2). The user only have read, traverse and execute ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Possibility to sort a table in a dashboard based on a column not visible in the table

purpose: we would like to sort on large transactions detailed explanation: we would like to sort a table based on absolute values, but not showing the absolute value column. We want to display the actual value column. example: actual value ,abs (v...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Enhancement to IPPA tool to capture performance metrics behind report executions. Ref - Jijiang (George) Xu

1. IPPA does not capture detailed performance metrics for CQM Queries Vs DQM Queries 2. RQPPreparingCursorForDataFetching and RQPPreparingCognosSQL are two actions that take most UDA/data access time. George thought it would be good to break the q...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Cognos REST API - Permission check that only displaying the folders/items the logged in user has permissions to view.

Via de Cognos REST API - The call: api/v1/content/team_folders/itemslogged on as a specific user with a security token, you always see all the folders of present. It is not limited for the folders that the user has access to.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration