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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Interactive Viewer Interface Enhancements

The interactive viewer interface has areas where it could be improved. Filter Button. A report author can disable the interactive viewer functionality and toolbar to prevent a report consumer using the interactive viewer functionality. If the inte...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Prompt/parameter defauts - Set by Query (Use Query as source instead of hardcoded text)

Instead of hardcoded text, have the option to use a query as the source for prompt/parameter defaults. This will make the default selection of a prompt dynamic (user can access each report with own preferences). In our company we need to be able t...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Include unsubscribe Link in watch item mails to allow convenient removal of subscriptions.

Overview This proposal outlines an enhancement to IBM Cognos that would allow users to unsubscribe from watch item notifications directly within the email, eliminating the need to manually navigate the Cognos interface. This feature would improve ...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

How to restrict some user 's permission to create custom SQL in report studio but still let the user run existing reports containing custom SQL

We are about to upgrade cognos from 10.2.1 to Cognos Analytics 11.1.3, and plan to give most user capability to access report studio, but we don't want to provide all of them permission to write custom SQL inside report studio, also we want most u...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Delete vs Write vs Full

Within the permissions of an object, we now have a hierarchy of security -- Read, Run, Write and Full. In previous versions, we had 5 permissions - Read, Execute, Traverse, Write and Policy (still kind of have this in the admin piece) but... In al...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Deny copy from folders without write permissions

In the Cognos Analytics interface; we would like to have the ability to deny or remove copy from folders that users do not have write access to. Currently there is no way of preventing users with read and traverse from copying reports and saving t...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cleanup of uploaded files older than threshold

Cognos 11 allows uploading of files to be analyzed in dashboards. As all users are able to upload such files, it would be useful to have a facility to remove files that are either older than a specific threshold or have not been accessed for a spe...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Securing Cognos 11 Extensions

By default, any extension installed is available to all users! Tightening security requires admin to go to each Cognos security Role and manually remove access to the extension.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Applying Security - Cognos 11 Extensions

By default, any extension installed is available to all users! Tightening security requires admin to go to each Cognos security Role and manually remove access to the extension.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Enable datatype information when converting Query Studio reports

When using the "Convert to report" option to convert Query Studio reports to Report Studio/editor, data items do not contain the XML tags required for several reporting options to function properly, namely filtering and inserting a calculation wit...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration