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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Customization of new Homeview screen

We have more than 3 clients currently asking and wanting to customize their home screen in Cognos Analytics. The new default (11.0.7+) has additional "tiles" that show recently ran reports and a quick links section at the right that shows some IBM...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Delivered

Allow conditional formatting in dashboard

When we drag a measure into table, we are able to see distribution of values. We can alter the range there and be able to select color pallette. It would be nice to simply drag a measure into a tile on a dashboard and be able to do some conditiona...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Refreshbutton in Cognos BI 11 Portal

In contrast to IBM Cognos 10.X the portal of IBM Cognos Analytics does not offer a refresh button to refresh the content of the folder the user gets displayed.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

KPI Visualization

When using Dashboards to display KPIs, the Number widget/visualization shows only the number (and name) from the data source.This RFE suggests a (new) KPI Visualization that instead takes two numbers and can be adjusted / customized using properti...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Display SQL generated by Dashboard visualizations

Currently the only way to see the SQL generated by a dashboard is to have the system admistrator stop the query service, turn on JDBC logging, and start the Query Service. Starting/stopping the query service on a server is burdemsome and can not a...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Improve display of long report names when editing it in Properties

In Properties, when you edit a long report title you can't see the entire report name and must use your cursor to display parts of the name. Our report authors find this frustrating. Please improve the interface to display the entire name when edi...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Barcode Font missing in cp4d cognos analytics

Cognos analytics on cp4d does not support barcode fonts. Barcode fonts are not available. This a big gap when migrating from cognos on windows platform to cognos cp4d platform, as we have reports that displays barcode for frequent/daily scanning.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Delivered

DISABLE DEFAULT REPORT AUTHORING TEMPLATES

We use Cognos in such a way that we need to restrict users from creating Active Reports. When you create a New Report, the first screen that displays prompts you to choose a template: Blank report or blank active report. There is no way to disable...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Setting permissions in Cognos Analytics with matrix like in Cognos 10

When setting permissions in Cognos Anlytics (e.g. on folders), the interface is not very userfriendly:- permissions can't be set for more than one group, if no standard permission (i.e. read, write) is used- permissions are not displayed at a glan...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Option to copy object location in Cognos

We have many reports that live many folders deep in Team content. In order to get the navigation path for a particular report, we used to be able to copy the bread crumbs displayed in Cognos 10 or there was a navigation path in the report properti...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered