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    Ability to hide button 'Automatic Dashboard' via role customization or user capability

    There is a new function 'Automatic Dashboard' in Cognos 12.0.4 which cannot be hidden from our users, neither with role customization nor with user capability. There are two main issues with that function so we want to have the ability to hide it....
    10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Not under consideration

    Request support for Windows 2025

    Add support for Windows 2025
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products / Informix Server 1 Under review

    JDBC suport of collection data types in scroll cursors

    Currently the usage of collection data type columns in scroll cursors are disabled by default throwing an Exception with this stack trace. Stack trace returned is: at com.informix.util.IfxErrMsg.buildExceptionWithMessage(IfxErrMsg.java:416) at com...
    over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

    Prevent copying of data modules

    We want to allow a user to use a data module in Reporting perspective but he should not be able to copy the data module. On the copied data module the user is the owner and has full permissions. It is not possible to prevent copying of data module...
    almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

    Blockchain integration as a data source

    Would like to see integration of Blockchain as a data source in Cognos Analytics. Currently the only way to tap into it from cognos is to export to a relational data source then use it as a static which isn't desirable. Outside of that we have to ...
    10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

    Possibility for user to select storing dataset as parquet-file or as db2 dataset.

    We are having issues with db2 datasets (Some datasets originally stored as parquet files can not be stored as db2 datasets) while evaluating this new feature. In meantime users can not create new datasets to production.
    about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Is a defect

    Connection Manager should check if a secondary server is in sync before allowing connections to that server

    When you have a primary and a secondary both server are in sync. But if you need to stop one of them for maintenaince reasons then it becomes out of sync. When you start it again the server might be so many log ahead and need to sync but the serve...
    4 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

    enhance "Finding report dependencies" in Framework Manager to extend it to cover datasets

    More and more clients are using datasets to speed up their dashboards within Cognos - the speed of the dashboard has always been that one thing where Cognos seriously is behind on other products like Qlik and PowerBI). Without this functionality C...
    over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

    Data module: Publish, change impact, and report dependencies

    It would be nice to have the same funcionality for publish, change impact, and report dependencies like in Framework Manager
    over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

    Data modules - Possibility to control access to different data sources

    We want to control which data sources (Packages, Data sets, Files, Data Modules, Databases) our customers could use when they create and edit data modules. Currently there is no possibilty to restrict the available data sources. Initially they sho...
    almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

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