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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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511 VOTE

Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration
117 VOTE

Ability to refresh prompts of an embedded report if dashboard filter(s) change / common prompting model

Our dashboards created for IBM sales leadership often have both native dashboard views and embedded/iframe'ed reports when it is needed for better data visualization. Embedded report prompts are hard-coded in a URL pointing to a report. If a user ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration
144 VOTE

Password Protection for Excel while scheduling in Cognos Analytics

This is most welcome feature for most of the Banks. Considering the type of data what banks handle, this feature will ensure the users that their data is well protected in Cognos. This benefits all Cognos users and in my current Project it benefit...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Create from existing data Tile - Present content view with folder navigation.

When using the 'Create' tile from the homepage of Cognos Analytics and then selecting to create a report using existing data. Currently the user is presented with a long list of data sets, data modules and packages that they have access to. The co...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 2 Future consideration

Improve Admin logging level in Cognos logs to capture all the events

Admin activity applies to all the users who use the UI. A user in the context of this deliverable is anybody that uses the application including other teams and the application team themselves. Admin activity applies to the application code unique...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Advanced Formatting Options Applied in Dashboards, Explorations, and Stories

In Data Modules you can format an item using advanced options such as patterns etc. I want to be able to apply patterns on dates in particular. It works fine in reporting but does not appear the same way in my dashboard. Per the documentation it s...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Colour consistency should be definable across all objects, not just within a single dashboard. And we should have attributes on members, not just data items.

Colour consistency is a great feature, ensuring that within a single dashboard all visualisations will show a member with the same colour. But what about if you have a suite of dashboards? What about if you have reports? A user would want the same...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Background Image Sourcing

Standard layout images can be sourced from a URL that is either text or the result of a report expression. The report expression option provides quite a bit of functionality in terms of being able to show different images based on simple or comple...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Ability to notify time-out warning for the user before the actual timeout occur in Cognos Analytics Portal

Why is it Useful: Accessibility Time-out warning notification enhancement request: The use of timed events can present significant barriers for users with cognitive disabilities, as these users may require more time to read content or to perform f...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 3 Future consideration

use a datamodule in Event Studio

IBM Cognos Event Studio works with source items that were defined in an IBM Cognos Framework Manager model and published as a package. We need that IBM Cognos Event Studio works also with Data Modules.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 11 Future consideration