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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

Support multiple skills to an Assistant

Currently Assistant supports only one skill , which in a real world scenario does not make sense. There should be provision to add multiple skills to an assistant to be achieve more scalable conversations
almost 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

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

Optimize current implementation of S3 cloud storage

The current implementation of S3 cloud storage has some disadvantages. It's a "fire-and-forget" approach which has the following disadvantages in detail from our point of view: Files with the same name will be overwritten in S3. Idea: add a timest...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Use S3 for externalization of outputs

Our content stores (currently DB2) are growing through more and bigger outputs from reports although we have a rigid housekeeping. But in any case, we are limited to a certain content store size. And database storage is very expensive. File extern...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

show instance in Watson Assistant UI (as was the case in prior version)

The Watson Assistant UI used to show the instance, but that was removed. Now, we need to go to the profile icon and click on it. So, please when in WA and editing a skill, it would be very helpful to display the instance on the screen instead of h...
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

New dynamically moving User Interface UI causes accidental delete

The new UI that dynamically resizes the dialog node tree, the details of the currently selected node and the search panel is very helpful. However, I ran into an issue where I was trying to click on something and just as I pushed the button, the s...
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Option called "Maximum number of backup server log files" Should apply to all generated logs

The current options " Maximum number of backup server log files" for is applying to cognosserver.log and p2pd_message.log only. However it should apply for all generated logs. Reference post - Setting up logging - IBM Documentation
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration