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    Customizable Soft Delete Period in Catalog

    Currently, in the catalog, when we delete an asset we have two options like delete immediately or delete after 30 days. We need an Enhancement to customize this delete period. Instead of a fixed 30 -day delay, User should be able to define their O...
    10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

    Need IBM to support userid,password for proxy server authentication

    For OIDC configuration for B2C to connect to B2C Tenant we are migrating to a proxy (ZScaler) with Use ID password - Cognos does not support userid password for authenticating to a proxy server. This is a issue for use because UPS Information Secu...
    10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

    SSH User and Host Key renewal

    In Netezza, ssh keys are rigid and can not be renewed (refer TS018311857). Per constant security threats, this is a least requirement to renew ssh root user and ssh host keys. And ssh keys are integrated with internal and external nodes, we reques...
    4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

    Cyclops in the same timezone as system

    We are operating on CET/CEST timezones and noticed that in query history we have times that should not exist from the period between 2025-03-30 02:00:00 and 2025-03-30 03:00:00. At 2:00 AM the clocks were pushed 1 hour forward to 3:00 AM so there ...
    8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 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 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

    Allow to unregister Dispatchers before starting CM for first time

    When an upgrade via a DB backup/restore is done, if both CA versions (old and new) will be ON, it is expected that "old" version Dispatchers to be already registered in the "new" site, because "old" and "new" DB's data is the same. So, when starti...
    4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

    remove MSSQL deprecated datatypes from schema

    Microsoft SQL Server has deprecated the data types TEXT, IMAGE or NTEXT. Is there an effort to update the audit, notification store and content store databases to use new data types such as: (varchar(max), nvarchar(max), varbinary(max) and etc.). ...
    9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Planned for future release

    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 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

    A utility to compare database tables between production and replica databases for NRS v3

    A utility to compare database tables between production and replica instances. We run NRS 3.x and early implementations were very unreliable with silent failures. nzdr does not give any information on state of the tables in the replica. We develop...
    10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

    Support public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) managed database services for content/audit stores

    Currently, if we opt to use one of the public cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP) to host Cognos Analytics Local, we are required to provision a self-managed database host and database in order to host the Cognos Analytics content stores. This limits ...
    about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

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