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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Colour consistency should be definable across all objects, not just within a single dashboard. And we should have attributes on members, not just data items.

Colour consistency is a great feature, ensuring that within a single dashboard all visualisations will show a member with the same colour. But what about if you have a suite of dashboards? What about if you have reports? A user would want the same...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Object Level Security at Table and Field Level for Data Modules

Data Modules do not currently have a way to specify object level security at the table or field level the way Framework Manager does. You should be able to set which tables and fields a particular user or group of users is able to see. There are m...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Future consideration

Audit user Group Management Activity

In IBM Cognos Analytics, as an administrator, I am tasked with adding and removing users from various groups based on organizational needs. However, despite having necessary admin rights , there is no visibility of this activity on Cognos Logs. Th...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Audit tables with userfriendly content

We use audit-db a lot, mainly for run and usage statistics and for trouble solving. In order to make the result more readable/understandable we do a lot of string conversions etc. This makes audit reports and dataset refresh slow. The retrieval of...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Glass interface for setting advanced settings improvements

Within CA Glass interface to set advanced settings you have to go to:Manage > Configuration > System > Advanced Settings On this screen you can type in a Key. If the key has been set then the value of the key will be shown. This is a very...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Audit table for datasets

Want to be able to monitor dataset growth/decline of time. e.g. -size -number of rows -number of columns
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Possibility to sort a table in a dashboard based on a column not visible in the table

purpose: we would like to sort on large transactions detailed explanation: we would like to sort a table based on absolute values, but not showing the absolute value column. We want to display the actual value column. example: actual value ,abs (v...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 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

Create Audit data module together with Audit sample reports in the same way as exist for the Audit package.

In our self service environment we do not have framework manager installed. We need to connect some user access tables to the audit model. We could create an Audit data module our selves but then if IBM does any changes to the audit model () we ha...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Hide show generated sql

For security reason i would be able to hide to basic users the possibility to show generated sql and so view the internal tables , connection,schema etc.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 2 Future consideration