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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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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

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

Add output format option to drill through in dashboards

Currently there is no option to specify a target report output format in drill throughs created in Dashboards. And to make things worse, when a default output format is set on the target report (ex. to run in Excel format) this is completely ignor...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 3 Future consideration

Allow for customisations to Dashboard to allow for users to edit but not save

Enhancement Request: To customize a role that will allow users to be able to Edit (edit mode toggled on) certain dashboards but restrict them from being able to 'save' those dashboards, instead make them 'save as'. When they next use the 'saved as...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Improve administration of Scheduled Reports

We have a CA enterprise system that has been live for over 15+ years. Over that time users have created hundred of schedules. Some of those schedules are on reports they have created themselves or report views. Some of those schedules error becaus...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration
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Setting the default landing page for all users in Cognos Analytics Portal

Merged
We are an Organization with around 400+ users in Cognos.As many of these users are business users and are mostly non technical users, we would like to reduce the time needed to train them as we upgrade from Cognos analytics 11.1R3 to CA11.2.We hav...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Simplified Single IP for Audit logging service when using multiple NICs

Problem Statement: When servers have multiple network adapter cards, Cognos audit is logged as a mix of both the IPs. This makes it difficult for customers to analyze audit data and there is a slight chance that you might miss the data unless you ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Data set security to be inherited from data source security

When a data set is created (from a package), it should inherits the security of the data source on which the package is based. For example, a DataAccessRole with Read, Write, Execute, Traverse is defined as security on the data source. When crea...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Functionality To Pass Dashboard This Tab Filter values with Invert i.e. exclude in drill through

High Level Summary ------------------ Issue IS Dashboard drill-through pass filter values with Invert i.e. exclude Issue IS NOT Dashboard drill-through pass filter values selected Issue IS Dasboard This tab, Global tab and Local filter options Iss...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Remove unsuccessful login entries labeled as "Not Available" from Cognos Analytics audit package

When we tried to find out the logon information using the audit package in Cognos Analytics then we noticed that the user name details are showing as 'not available' in the audit report. Detailed explanation: When the logging level for ContentMana...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration