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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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An NLG (Natural Language Generation) Customization Studio for Watson in Cognos

Create a dedicated "NLG Studio" within Cognos Analytics that allows administrators and business users to customize the tone, terminology, and key metrics used in Watson's automated insights. Users could create and save custom narrative templates f...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 1 Submitted

Improve Admin logging level in Cognos logs to capture all the events

Admin activity applies to all the users who use the UI. A user in the context of this deliverable is anybody that uses the application including other teams and the application team themselves. Admin activity applies to the application code unique...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration
143 VOTE

Use Library tab in Admin to store JavaScript Controls

I'd like to see JavaScript controls in the library tab in the admin console. With the controls in the library, we would have a few benefits:1. Provide a description or usage manual2. In the properties of the control, you could have a "See document...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Please add rowspan and colspan as conditional style properties in list and crosstab cells

There are many times where I need to hide or show specific cells in crosstabs or lists. If I were to hide cells in the crosstab rows, other cells may cause the entire table to deform. This can be replicated quite easily by having Node 1 | Node 2--...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Improvements to Drill Throughs

Drill throughs have been part of Cognos for a very long time, but there have been few improvements in the past few versions. I suggest the following changes: 1. Drill to block. I would like to click on a drill and have the target open in the speci...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Resize Individual Columns in Table within Dashboard

We need to be able to resize the columns of a table within the dashboard tool. Many of our users are complaining about text being clipped within the table and they can't read it. We have explained that we don't have the ability to resize the colum...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

behavior when 'overwriting' folder using copy should be merge instead of replace (or present user with an option)

When you copy a folder over another folder with the same name, you are prompted to overwrite or rename. If you overwrite it doesn't simply overwrite the files that exist in both the target and source folders, it replaces the entire content of the ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Report references within Dashboards

It would be a nice to have feature to reference a report or an object within a report within a dashboard. Similar to the same functionality as Cognos Workspace had -- where you could reference a list or crosstab of a report and link the items toge...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy&Paste of layout elements: Check if referenced query exist and ask if they should be reused

When copying lists (also crosstabs, charts, etc.) the referenced query is always created as well. If the name already exists in the target report, a number (1, 2, 3, etc.) is appended. It should be checked if the query with the corresponding name ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Enhancements to the Alert Banner

The Alerts Banner, started in version 11.1.4, is a very useful tool to communicate with users. Very handy for announcements like downtime, availability of reports or updates to the environment. Please add the following features: 1- Ability to add ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration