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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Cognos ability to read from REST API services

One challenge we are facing today is the ability to read data from non-traditional databases such as Marklogic, Nginx, NoSql databases which talk through Rest API for most of their functionality. They not only enable real time reporting requiremen...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Case of letters in objects paths

There is a problem when switching between MSSQL and Oracle databases. Both databases may have the same structure and naming convention. In MSSQL, object paths use a naming convention where only the first letter of each entity is capitalized (e.g.,...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Planned for future release

from IBM Cloud, allow Bursting to Save Output to customer's file system

CA Cloud does not currently support report bursting to save output onto any file systems. Understand it could not be saved onto the cloud servers, but there is a VPN connection to the customer's environment (source databases), please leverage that...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

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

Include interactive report runs in Past Activities Cognos Administration list

In Cognos Administration, the Past Activities list currently only shows previous report runs run in the background, while the Current Activities list has the option to show either Background activities or Interactive activities. As an administrato...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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

ENH: Add support for visual totals to Dynamic Cubes

In a hierarchy with multiple levels (say Region and Country for example) if a user only has security granted for certain countries when Region is pulled into the report there are a couple ways the aggregates could be shown. Dynamic Cubes by design...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

View dynamic cube messages in audit database or get notifications on failure via mail

When dynamic cubes fail to load or are unable to refresh their member or data cache, this is not logged in the audit database. The only convenient way to view these messages is via the cube messages in the cognos administration console. This way, ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Maintenance: Bulk Delete Reports

System: Cognos AdministrationActor: New maintenance featureRequire a bulk delete/move task to move/remove thousands or reports. Description: We need to have an easy way to identify and delete thousands of obsolete reports.These reports exist in a ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request for the addition of a generic JDBC driver connector to enable users to connect any database in Cognos Analytics.

We would like to propose the addition of a generic JDBC driver connector in Cognos Analytics. This feature would allow users to connect to any database that supports JDBC, providing the flexibility to use a wide range of database systems with Cogn...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Functionality already exists