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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Ability to configure an "audit" email address that is automatically copied to all emails being sent from Cognos

A customer of ours moved from on-prem to cloud service. On-prem, they used internal smtp and had a "send" rule added to automatically cc an audit inbox so they had visibility of exactly what being sent from Cognos and to who. Using their own smtp ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

trigger.sh no plaintext password as parameter

trigger.sh from Cognos has a password parameter, which need the password in plaintext. While the command is running the password can be seen in the prozess table, which typicaly will be seen by monitoring tools. The password parameter should not b...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Planned for future release
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Option to Run Schedule Once

We were excited to see the My Schedules and Subscriptions menu added to Cognos Analytics 11.0.8, but found there was one option we previously had (and still have in the administration view) is to run a schedule once. Our users who heavily utilize ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CSV generation options per report/run

Currently csv settings like encoding, terminator, delimiter, qualifier, mimetype and trimspaces are set at the system level for all report executions. Changes affect all users in the specific environment. Our users have different requirements for ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Delivered

Improvements to Custom Controls

The native custom control system makes integrating custom elements a great deal easier, but there are a few areas for improvement. Defined drop zones on the pageI would love to be able to define drop zones similar to other Cognos objects like grap...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Globally change the value of input customized parameters included in a defined filter

[The description for problem] Customized parameter is not applied all visualizations on Dashboard. When we create a filter with the parameter (i.e. pCountry) under Manage >Customizatio >Parameters on a data module and apply it on a dashboard...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Cognos 11 Dashboard with REST API capabilities

We embed cognos reports and dashboards into another web app. For the new dashboards we cant send parameters in the URL to filter the dashboard via iframes. we use datasets.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Drill Through Definition - use datasource data items, not just fields in visuals

When creating a dashboard drill through definition you can only easily use data items that on visualisation to pass through to report parameters. When you have lots of navigation paths it isn't easy to pass through all the appropriate data items t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Cognos 11 - Email Attachment Restriction

Requesting the ability to lock down a user or group's ability to send reports as attachments in email form. This functionality was available by adding a "CC_RUN_OPTIONS_email_attachment" "ui_hide" parameter value in the system.xml file (under "{in...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Integrate Event Studio functionality into C11 Analytics core

Event Studio in v10.2.2 was a very handy toolset that allowed businesses to schedule jobs with much more detail than the regular scheduler. We were able to verify conditions, and create detailed step by step actions to take. Also, the communicatio...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered