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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Ability to expand and collapse a grouped list or crosstab

I would love to see the ability to expand and collapse groups in lists specifically, but also crosstabs. Only the summary information for those groups would be shown, much like what is shown by default when summaries are added to the list group fo...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Prompts: variable default values

System: Cognos Analytics ReportingActor: User needing a simpler reporting experience Description:Reporting users have a need for reports that are easy to use. Prompt controls allow hard-coded default values. Sometimes the users want default values...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Add functionality to setup a data module in a way that can be used by multiple clients, each of them having access to a different database

The data module works only for one of the connections, the one that was selected at the moment it is saved. We need to be prompted for the connection instead of saving the connection along with the data module. We need a way to setup a data module...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Readd the ability to hide an email attachment which is available in Cognos Business Analytics V 10.2.2

In Cognos Business Analytics Version 10.2.2 has the ability to hide the Attach the report checkbox in the set the emails options GUI. In C11 this ability has been removed. Please see the following IBM link which shows how to hide the “Attach the r...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 12 Delivered

Support of Informix 14.10 as data source

At the moment, Cognos BI 10.2.2 does not fully support Informix 14.10 as data source, which leads to problems and abortions when running reports: Obviously, Cognos query engine generates SQL code, which cannot be executed within Informix 14.10. Th...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Cognos analytics prompts - add a default value based on an expression

It would be very helpful if Cognos analytics prompts supports adding a default value based on a query in addition to being able to choose static choices.. This would be very helpful for creating reports without needing to creating custom code. Cur...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 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