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Under Team Content We need All reports and path and description details not Audit report

User asked what are the reports under Team content. Report Name ,Report Path and Description of the report. Example: Team Content->Office A->under 10 Reports we need to see all 10 Reports and description. In Audit Report only User run report...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future 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...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Not under consideration

User Membership Summary

It would be of tremendous benefit to be able to see, for an object of type user, role or group, a summary of all the roles and groups to which the object belongs. It actually seems pretty odd that this functionality apparently does not exist out o...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to select a Contribution Version for Control table E705 (Indirect Minority)

In the Control table E700 (Direct Minority) it is possible to select a Contribution Version but for the table E705 (Indirect Minority) it is NOT possible to select a Contribution version. It is only possible to select a Closing Version. This is re...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Scheduling Reports built in Controller (extraction in Excel)

Scheduling reports in Excel is the first step in the process of preparing Consolidated Financial Statements for the business leaders. Each business leader receives a Consolidated workbook with multiple tabs (BS, P&L and CF) for the companies, ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Add support for TLS 1.2 (OpenSSL 1.0.1) to Cognos Gateway Apache module

The Apache module for the Cognos BI gateway (mod2_2_cognos.so) is currently compiled against OpenSSL version 0.9.8. In order to be run on a web server that supports TLS 1.2, this component needs to be compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.1g or above.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Enhance IMAM S3 Connector to be compatible with a session token generated by AWS STS service

Upgrade to Amazon S3 connector of IMAM to be comptatible with a STS session token. As for now, the connector can only be set up using accessKey and secretKey and it does not allow to connect to AWS in case the company policy is to make use of a te...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Planned for future release

When a Benchmark job fails It would be nice to see the bsub used to submit the job

We can manually construct the actual bsub, but it would be nice to be able to cut and paste it when editing the Benchmark job so we can test that it actually will work. In one case we were getting "Queue Permission Errors" and it having that bsub ...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Export Job should allow for customization for sorting of data by attribute

When exporting the file customization on order in which the data is sorted would be useful for many purposes. Once example is sorting by oldest to newest so that loading the file into another environment allows transactions to be loaded in chronol...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Macro to get user groups and or roles in cognos or ad

For the moment in reporting and fm there are only macro that are able to get security information of the user logged in. Example:CSVIdentityNameList(). I would like to have a macro that shows roles and groups (at least inside cognos namespace)...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration