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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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ability to set default value for email delivery method.

When users run a report using ‘Run as’ and select email as delivery method there will be two options they can select one or both.1. Include link 2. Attach output Prior CA 11.1.7FP4 the default selection was option 1: Include link. IBM made an enha...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Planned for future release

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

Report References and Bursting

Report references allow you to create booklet like reports containing other reports. Report references are awesome! With very little effort you can combine reports. And there is no maintenance, changes in the reference report are automatic in the ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

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

Report running Cancel dialogue window could have more value with additional options, such as switch format.

Report consumers often don't know that they can run a report in their preferred output format. Untrained consumers will typically run a report to HTML, wait for it to run, then use the run in Excel option. If a report takes a long time to run then...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Dynamic (Relative) Default Value for Date Prompt

The date prompt is used in many financial reports, Including quite a few that have specific relative dates (actuals for yesterday, actuals for last month). The date prompts should be able to set dynamic default values (current_date - 1), however, ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow users to maintain the audit database for Cognos Analytics on Cloud

An audit database comes with Cognos Analytics on Cloud but client users lack the ability to manage and maintain it. A user needs the ability to manage the volume of data retained in the database and to be able to truncate data for a specific time ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

New capabilities for CSV and PDF export

As we want to make sure we follow security standards for our Cognos platform in Production environment (no PDF/CSV/XLS outputs allowed), we currently managed to remove PDF/CSV/XLS report export capability for our customers in Production - CA versi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Client side rendering of interactive reporting

Client side rendering of interactive reporting will enhance the user experience a lot. It will also reduce the load on the Cognos servers 1. Faster sorting (and other operations) where no new data retrievals are needed and the output is only sorte...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to reuse/reference report elements in Dashboards

We need an ability to either reuse (copy&paste) or reference (like in Workspace) elements from Reports in Dashboards. Optimally we have the choice which way we want to use for the specific use case. Copy&paste contents from a Report to a D...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Planned for future release