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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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add the ability to change a variables name within the expression editor

Within a query within a report the expression editor has a Name and Expression Definition fields. This allows you to enter a name for an expression and also the expression within a single window. Contrast that with the expression editor for a repo...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Member tree for OLAP source in dashboading is missing

Member tree for OLAP source in dashboading is missing, only metadata tree is avaiable. Metadata tree is not user friendly it is developer point of view.For example this feature was in Cognos Workspace Advanced were OLAP source can be viewed as met...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Save HTML report to file system in HTML format and not MHT format

An HTML report is displayed optimally for the computer screen. Therefore you want to store the HTML report in the file system and make it available to your employees. This report will be saved as MHT file. In the company, Internet Explorer is no ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Addition of trend lines on visualizations in dashboard currently no in dashboard but we have these in report studio old charts.

As the name you kept as Cognos Analytics and always say AI but we dont have a basic option of AI is addition of trendlines for visualizations in dashboard but you can see the attachment we have trendlines/baselines/markers/notes all of them in old...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

More control over local processing

More control over where to process which part of a report: on database or local, make visible when the report is being processed locally (after run, on development). Alternative: Locally processed report runs must be more stable and reliable: a) S...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Planned for future release

Copy Conditional Styles from one report to another

In case of developing a group of reports within one project the styles the design of data tables is supposed to be the same. And it is hardly convinient to create the same Conditional Styles in every single report when you have dozens of them. In ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Ability to add comments/hints to report elements in report author

While developing a report, Funcional requirements, meeting’s annotations and such are documented, but it would much easier and better documented if present in the report’s specification. This resource is also more important if client uses any kind...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 3 Planned for future release

Missing Analysis Studio Functionality

There are missing Analysis Studio functionality that is missing in Report Authoring. If IBM is expecting normal business users to use Report Authoring as a suitable replacement for Analysis Studio, then IBM needs to make all the functionality avai...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Container for New Cognos Mobile App

Does the development team for Cognos Analytics for Mobile have anything on the app’s roadmap to add support for Intune app protection policies? According to the developer guidance on github, it would require the mobile app developer to make use of...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Planned for future release