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Install and config

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Extend Cognos SDK product documentation by information about SSL configuration

After freshly installing Cognos Analytics a custom java program using the Cognos SDK stopped working (SSL error)The product documentation provided no hints to what the problem could be and how it can be resolved. Neither did it explain the correct...
about 9 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

To implement the functionality of separating the management of the "Team Content" and "My content" directories of the IBM Cognos Analytics portal.

Hi, IBM Developers Team (IBM). Please implement the functionality of disabling/enabling the "Add Folder" menu button in the "Team Content" and "My content" directories not globally, but locally for these directories. It is impossible to simu...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Please implement the functionality of separating the management of the "Team Content" and "My content" directories of the IBM Cognos Analytics portal.

Hi, IBM Developers Team (IBM). Please implement the functionality of disabling/enabling the "Copy to" menu button in the "Team Content" and "My content" directories not globally, but locally for these directories. It is impossible to simultaneousl...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

More Authentication Support for Content Store with Azure SQL DB

Hi, As more company are moving to cloud, we need more modern method of authentication for content store. Currently for MSSQL, SQL or Windows authentication is supported. In the Azure Entra ID, we need support for authentication with the Managed Id...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Submitted

Allow the addition of new components during the upgrade process.

At present, upgrading Cognos Analytics reads the currently installed components from the cmplst.txt file, and only upgrades those components. It is not possible to add any additional or new components (for example, Image Service) during an upgrade...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

Extend Cognos Analytics product documentation by information about 3rd party certificates

I was activating ssl in a customer's productive cognos analytics environment. I followed the instructions of the corresponding product documentation for cognos analytics 11.2.4: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.2.0?topic=ecmica-conf...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Option called "Maximum number of backup server log files" Should apply to all generated logs

The current options " Maximum number of backup server log files" for is applying to cognosserver.log and p2pd_message.log only. However it should apply for all generated logs. Reference post - Setting up logging - IBM Documentation
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Support for Platform Connections in Cognos Analytics on CP4D

Currently, as of 4.8.x, CP4D's version of Cognos Analytics does not support adding connections from Platform Connections. The customer requests support for Platform Connections in CA on CP4D. Additionally, Cognos Analytics should support both Pers...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Optimize current implementation of S3 cloud storage

The current implementation of S3 cloud storage has some disadvantages. It's a "fire-and-forget" approach which has the following disadvantages in detail from our point of view: Files with the same name will be overwritten in S3. Idea: add a timest...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Use S3 for externalization of outputs

Our content stores (currently DB2) are growing through more and bigger outputs from reports although we have a rigid housekeeping. But in any case, we are limited to a certain content store size. And database storage is very expensive. File extern...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration