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Enhance Cognos Administration – CUG2026

linke Motio CI/PI Capabilities in AdministrationNative support for search & replace across reports, Git-based version control, full content visibility, and bulk role/group assignments.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Planned for future release

IBM has discontinued bundling iKeyman with Java Runtime Environment (JRE) starting at version 11, with complete removal by JRE 17. This legacy GUI tool was essential for managing SSL keystores in Cognos 12.1.x and Planning Analytics. We propose that IBM include a modern, alternative GUI-based keystore management tool within the Cognos and Planning Analytics packages to replace iKeyman's functionality and bridge the gap left by its discontinuation.

Your idea and why is it useful: iKeyman provided an intuitive visual interface for inspecting and managing SSL keystores, making it invaluable during critical troubleshooting situations and complex SSL installations. While command-line alternative...
15 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Centralized Settings Storage in Administration/UI – CUG2026

Store all user and system settings in the Content Store instead of cookies or session parameters.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

Better Role-Based UI Customization in UI/Administration – CUG2026

Allow full UI customization (buttons, menus, toolboxes) based on user roles. For Example: At the moment it is not possible to hide the toolbox in reporting or the page switcher... We need this to get the Analysis Studio Users happy in Reporting (o...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration
514 VOTE

Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

Administratively Configure Default Option when Sending Report by Email

I have found that most users prefer to have report outputs distributed via e-mail as attachments so they can work on and/or re-distribute the output on their own, especially if some of the users included in the distribution do not have access to C...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

Change/Update ownership of Schedules to Service Accounts

We would like the ability to change or update the ownership of schedules to service accounts. By default they are owned by the creator, however this leaves a single source of failure if the person would leave. Also when creating scheduled emails, ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

Adjustable column width in Activities view

Request: Please enable users to adjust the column width in the Activities view. Currently, the columns cannot be enlarged, which makes it difficult to read for example longer names of executed reports. This is a usability issue, especially since t...
18 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported with Cognos Analytics

Cognos Audit Extension should be totally supported in Cognos Analytics. In the following article (IBM Cognos Analytics - Audit Extension Reports and Models), you can read:"The IBM Cognos Audit Extension is an as-is application. This means Customer...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Future consideration

Update referenced IDs of "Favorites" and "Recently Used Items" during content store import - CUG2026

When importing a content store export into Cognos in the administration console, there are two options: keep existing IDs during import or assign new IDs during import. In some cases, new IDs during import has to be chosen to prevent the system fr...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

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