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Export files REST API Call for Script Automation

We need export file/package REST API call for script automation but there is no call related to that in this reference cognos REST API doc - https://dhcsdevtestcog.ca.analytics.ibm.com/api/api-docs/#/ Impact in our promotional process automationfr...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Submitted

Introduction of Framework 'View Transaction History' log or similar concept for Data Modules to capture changes.

The 'View Transaction History' log within Framework was a good way to identify evolving changes on a FM project. Data Modules, by my understanding, do not have this facility. This type of enhancement for DM's would be beneficial for developers to ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Submitted

In the "Availability" alerts correct the "Log Space" to operate on current space usage rather than top usage. I don't see this as an enhancement - I see this as a fix for a broken feature.

Currently when you exceed the threshold there is an alert raised. Once the usage drops the alert does not drop. The only way to 'close' the alert is to stop/start the database ('Deactivate') - ie an exclusive outage. In a production database this ...
13 days ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Improvement to Report Bursting: Recover from a fail, better error reporting

When bursting a report it is difficult to work out which parts of the burst have been successful or not. After a burst Cognos should be able to tell you which burst keys were successfully burst and if any emails were sent. It should also be able t...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Datamodule doesn't support store procedures

By introducing the capability to import database stored procedures as parameterized query objects in the Data Module, you could streamline your workflow within Cognos and eliminate the need for additional Cognos Framework Manager installations. Th...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Optimization profile

Description: This request is to provide an optimization profile that may be applied at the DB layer, i.e., meaning no application code would need to be modified to use the profile, and the profile is configurable to where no instance recycle (star...
4 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Submitted

Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

To provide the option to filter the system objects metadata when audit policy enabled against db2instance user id for db2 luw database in audit captured data.

When native audit with execute category is enabled on db2instance user id , by filter options on system objects schema ex : SYSTOOLS reduces the huge amount of captured data when there is a huge number of tables in an OLTP database continuously up...
13 days ago in Db2 / Security 0 Submitted

Setting up the “Run in the Background” as default option at user level

Most of our customers are using “Run in the Background” option for long running reports. They will be okay to use this option however the user has to explicitly set this option every time they run the report which they want to avoid, and it would ...
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Potential considerations of ownership and support to Ignore the DB2 re-org(refresh) at table/subscription level

We are facing severe latency issue ( goes up to 3 hours ) in production. Source - mainframe DB2 ( cdc agent installed db2 for zOS) Target : Kafka We have two subscriptions, one is having only cdc/mirroring and other having refresh +mirroring. When...
14 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted