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Install and config

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Preserve advanced settings in case of full clean install

Preserve Manage-UI advanced settings and Dispatcher advanced settings in case of full clean install (Content Store upgrade and fixpack installation)
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Cognos supporting running on GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)

Client would like Cognos to support it's containers on GKE
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

IBM Cognos PowerCube packages to run in 64bit (DQM)

We have a distributed Cognos platform hosting more than 20 business aplications. As some of them use PowerCubes we have to keep Cognos 32bits dispatchers and manage double Cognos instances (32bits/64bits). Our target is a full 64bits platform (ful...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

CAMKeystore should be a part of Cognos functionality

Problem statement : Unable to find the encryption certificate with alias 'encryption' in the keystore, Due to this error not able to start IBM cognos services Regenerate cryptographic keys to resolve the same but currently there are no special log...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to change the maxURL lenght parameter in IIS config script

The default setting of the Maximum URL length (bytes) is 8192. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.2.0?topic=services-configuring-iis-in-cognos-analytics For some dashboards we need to increase this value to at least 16000 https://www....
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

custom appender log4j2 logging and CJAP and SDK logging

Today there is no feasibility to log CJAP or our SDK based batch script into custom log file using log4j2/SLF4j implementation. Earlier we used to use log4j 1.x with log4j.properties file and able to log SDK/CJAP into our custom log file. With 11....
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Not under consideration

systemd template unit files for Cognos Analytics

Currently, Cognos Analytics does not support an automatic service start via systemd template unit files on RHEL7 and 8. systemd allows us to control boot time dependencies with more granularity so tht we can control situation like start Cognos Ana...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Not under consideration

Add Rocky Linux as Supported Operating System

Rocky Linux has been selected by our company as the standard operating system for all applications. As a SaaS provider standardization across the organization has a tremendous impact on our ability to service and would produce cost savings. Rocky ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Root Folder by tenant for Multitenant Installations

Currently you can specify a custom folder for a tenant and it shows on the menu bar, but it is still referenced under Team Content as a sub-folder. We have the scenario where we have our base content that needs to be deployed on a per tenant basis...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Server to support SAS JDBC

In the list of vendor-support client driver, SAS JDBC is not supported. RHB Group has made Cognos as enterprise business analytics tools, that connect to various data sources as their data strategy for RHB Bank Group. At the moment, the SAS ODCB d...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration