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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...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Submitted

Possibility for administrator to Clear/empty dataset

Scheduling dataset refresh is unfortunately not possible in our environment since we do not have credentials for username/password. (We are using Smartcards and Kerberos) This means users must refresh datasets manually. This also means we need a w...
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

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 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 4 Submitted

Add eventid to Audit database (COGIPF_RUNREPORT)

The eventid is important for SDK applications and should be written to Audit database (COGIPF_RUNREPORT). For example when we want to determine a history object from the information provided in the Audit database. Currently there are only the sess...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Request of a way of keeping OIDC user profiles with consistency check

The Consistency check doesn't work in an OpenId environment. We are trying to keep our database to the minimum size possible and also cleaning up when user are deleted from AD, etc. This function is not supported right now from what the support sa...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Add back support for IMS JDBC driver to Cognos Analytics 12

We are a strong Z customer, and we bought IBM Cognos Analytics along with watsonx Code Assistant for Z (WCA4Z) because we need to do reporting from our IMS databases.We don't want to buy buy another Connector application at the moment because of a...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

fix audit log rollover features in Cogconfig

Everyone who administers Cognos Analytics or CA nodes would benefit from the functionality working as it had in the past (and as expected in general).
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Submitted

Version control built into Cognos Analytics as base functionality

Version control should be built into Cognos Analytics as base functionality. Not as a 3-rd party addon. Our users of CA expect version control to be an intregrated part of the tool.
29 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Route a report to run in background only (New Admin Feature)

We have some long running reports and users should run in background and not interactively. We do communicate to users to do this, but they do not always do it. I am requesting a feature where and Admin can make a report only run in background and...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Submitted

Required support for SSL dynamic intermediate certificate authority (ICA)

JPMC transition from using single intermediate certificate authority (ICA) for digital certificate to pool of Dynamic multiple intermediate CA for all internal applications. The last time single intermediate still work is 1st October 2025. I did t...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

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