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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Allow multiple File System Root Locations in case of failure in Cognos Config > Global Config > Archive Location File System Root

In events of failure to reach File System Root Location for report deliveries, allow multiple File System Root Locations (list in order) to be saved so Cognos can point to another File System Location automatically, if one fails it goes to second ...
1 day ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

per-tenant filename settings in MT Cognos

We have some customers who wish to set their report name format to include the date. Other customers prefer to use the same report name so that older versions are overwritten. We used to be able to allow per-customer name formats when we used dedi...
25 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

How to thicken a pie chart border in Dashboard in Cognos 12

Please take a look at the attached file.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Add compatibility with CSS post-processing to custom visualizations

Custom visualizations are a powerful tool for customers to use to expand possibilities on reports and dashboards, but a significant limitation on them is compatibility with modern coding practices. Many modern UI libraries (such as Material-UI and...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Keep HTML view of report in browser when changing it to Excel version

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7, users ran a report with prompts on the report page with the List in HTML. From the Viewer they would select Run > Excel, which would open a separate window browser Window for the Excel download. The original Cognos V...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

I would like to preserve the new line character(\n) when uploading data files.

When I upload an Excel or CSV data file to Cognos Analytics, new line characters contained within text columns are automatically converted to space characters. On the other hand, new line characters included in database text columns are handled wi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Update DataSource connection details via a config file or DB sql

Our install is on WINOS and consider 'on-prem' type.we migrate our prod Cognos to lower non-prod by way of Oracle DB DMP export and then Import that into our target Nonprod env Cognos db.we have steps sql steps and UI operations to cull and remove...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Trouble with setting date format in the Date Prompt (Date Prompt does not have Data Format property) when the Content Language is set to Ukrainian or Ukrainian(Ukraine).

Hello. This is a burning need: we need full support for the Ukrainian language in the IBM Cognos Analytics product. This revision will affect a large number of product users who use the product constantly. We're having trouble with setting dat...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Enable additional Header/ content in CSV format for report output

We are creating a report that we will export as a CSV file that will then be imported/uploaded to a 3rd party site. The 3rd party site has strict formatting requirements. For example, the first line of the CSV file is additional header with text i...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Scriptable Reports: Page module configuration

A page module can be used to control prompting -- default values for specific prompts, required prompt combinations, etc. But there is no way to configure a page module to be specific to a report. This leads to having a separate .js file for each ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted