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Remove unsuccessful login entries labeled as "Not Available" from Cognos Analytics audit package

When we tried to find out the logon information using the audit package in Cognos Analytics then we noticed that the user name details are showing as 'not available' in the audit report. Detailed explanation: When the logging level for ContentMana...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Seeing the contents of user's profile is not possible in Manage but only in old admin console

We try to use only Manage. In general just please add all functionalities from console to Manage. Detail: in Manage > Accounts when you see a user you can't see its content but instead just properties. This can be seen only in old Administratio...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Export Advanced Settings from new Admin UI

Currently when implementing advanced settings in the new Admin UI, it’s not possible to export them into the Full Content Store archive as we can already did when the following advanced parameter CM.DEPLOYMENTINCLUDECONFIGURATION is set in source ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Rest API for security group

Hello, We need an entegration with our security team. We did it before other BI tools with their rest api. But in Cognos we cannot use security group with members. Our security team don't want to use SDK because of our microservice standarts. You ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Exclude Admin Accounts for Data Size Limits

We have a host of critical object data sets and file uploads along with some user adhoc data files and sets but we own and schedule the critical files with an Admin account however have bumped up against the Size Limit of Stored Data Per User and ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

CA REST API - Add recursion option to groups and roles endpoints

Currently, when querying for list of groups or roles in CA REST API, the endpoints only return items at the root level of the namespace or the folder defined. If there are subfolders in the namespace or folder, groups/roles in this subfolders are ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Add/Extend CA REST API endpoint to retrieve groups/roles/capabilities for a specified user

In the current state, there is no endpoint within the Cognos REST API that allows an administrator to query another user's groups/roles/capabilities. Having this available would be extremely useful as we will have the ability to speed up our suppo...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Cognos CM Tool enhancement

Currently CM Tool is working with only LDAP/AD authentication. Can add OIDC authentication or CAM Password authentication in CM Tool.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Increase the limit to add more than 20 parameters in System level in Cognos Admin console.

Hi Team, We had an activity recently to Un-register and add the dispatchers again in Cognos11 , but we lost all existing parameters after the task. And we decided to add all parameters in System level Instead of Individual dispatchers , but we cou...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add Metadata to Cloud Object Storage file output

Saving a file in Cloud Storage creates a corresponding "outputDescriptor" xml file with some metadata information of the report execution. This Infos should be saved direct in the User-defined object metadata attributes of the S3 stored object. Ev...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration