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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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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

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

When Cognos Analytics queries Snowflake (Database Vendor: https://snowflake.com), the data returned when a TIME datatype is used in the query should be exactly the same as the data stored at rest within a given table on Snowflake, without any conversion based on the difference in hours between UTC and how time is configured on the Operating System where the dispatcher is installed.

This would benefit any IBM Cognos customer who is using Snowflake as a data source and expecting data to not be modified in flight regardless of where the Cognos dispatchers are located in the World's 24 regional time zones.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Full Report List in Audit Database

There should be a section added to the audit database that holds information on all reports that reside in the Cognos Analytics instance. This information is already present when looking at the permissions of a report, but there is not a complete ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Meaning of members in COGIPF_OPERATION field in AUDIT LOG

System : Audit log Database (cognosal), Audit package('Operations by Selected Object and Users' report)User : User need to know the meaning of member in COGIPF_OPERATION field Description : Our customer used the Audit report to check how the Cogno...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatically calculate data type

System: Cognos Analytics ReportingActor: User wanting to develop a report or explore data Cognos Analytics Reporting is used to explore data and produce reports, both of which lead to making decisions. Description: When performing a calculation us...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

User Access to Data in Content Store

I have been asked a few times about data stored in the CA content store at various Cognos installations I have worked at. My manager asked if there is a way to retrieve the various user folders in the system and their associated user group capabil...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add a time function within Cognos Analytics that always returns Cognos system time

Currently, the following functions return date/time based on whether the database provides support. current_date returns cognos system date if not within a query, but when used within a query, it returns the database server date. The same happens ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration