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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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More value formatting options in Dashboard

Currently formatting values is limited to 5 options in the dashboards (1, 2 or no decimals, abbreviated, and auto). It would be nice to be able to easily use other formats such as percentage, currency and customized.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Cascading Filter Prompts on Dynamic Dashboards

Global Filters and Tab Filters on Dynamic Dashboards cannot be assigned a Cascade Parent. Users can create List Widgets to use as filters but this takes up screen space (see requests for "drop down" style text/list widgets to get around this issue...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Cognos Analytics on Cloud for < 25 Users

The Workgroup offering is the first entry point that IBM provides for its Cognos Business Intelligence on cloud solution. The minimum number of users within Workgroup is 25 users. Ideally, it is requested that IBM provide an offering that allows a...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

certificates expiry check

We recently had production outage due to intermediate certificate expiry, while server certificate was valid. Please consider adding a feature to check expiry dates on ALL certificates in the chain: root, intermeate(s) and server, and alert Cognos...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Delivered

Apply drill through to all tabs within dashboard

We have a dashboard where users can do a discovery for new business opportunities. The dashboard has many tabs where each of the tabs represent a use case. We also have a report, which is on transaction level and the user can download it and use i...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Maintenance of Images library in Cognos Analytic Cloud

Managing Images in Cognos Analytics Cloud is not convenient:- when adding images to reports, we are not able to browse folders to locate images.- the synchronisation mechanism between our server and IBM cloud servers is handling only 1 single flat...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

List and Crosstab Visualization Lagging Behind Power BI and Tableau

A lot have been spoken about Charts and other candy like visualization BUT one part that is missing in Cognos Analytic Dashboard is a flexible, adjustable and better looking LISTS and CROSSTABSI've heard that LISTS and CROSSTABS aren't that useful...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Support Microsoft Identity Platform 2.0 API with Azure AD OpenID Connect (TS003289567)

Azure AD OpenID Connect API v1 (Azure AD for developers 1.0) doesn't support returning the groups claim in the ROPC (Resource Owner Password Credentials) logon method that Cognos uses to Authorize Stored Credentials for scheduled tasks and jobs. S...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

IBM Cognos Analytics 11 - Dashboards - Summary Visualization Conditional Palette

Hello, This is Rui Gonçalves from BI4ALL. I'm currently working in a project using IBM COGNOS ANALYTICS DASHBOARDS and evaluating the possibility to provide to the client the type of analysis and visualizations required. I noticed that IBM Cognos ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Map Visualization: make maximum legend items configurable. Current limit is 100.

When using a 11.1 Map visualization with a Points layer, it’s not possible to have the legend show more than 100 items. We have a dataset with 134 items, but the visualization cuts off the legend at 100 items even though the legend is scrollable a...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Delivered