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Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...

4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

3 VOTE

Allow creation of a job which can test a group of datasources, and e-mail the results to an admin

When maintenance events take place, it would be helpful to be able to schedule a job which will test all of the data sources, and notify an administrator if issues are present, so that they can be resolved proactively, prior to end-users reporting...

7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

4 VOTE

Add API to trigger schedules

For a long time Cognos has had the ability to trigger schedules using the trigger.bat utility. This however is very ouydated and impractical to run in orchestrators such as Apache Airflow. I wish for an API that can be called to trigger schedules.

10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

4 VOTE

List of user's group memberships

The administration capabilities always had the ability to show members in a group, but it has never been possible to view it the other way around: what groups is a user/group currently a member of. The user can view their group membership from the...

10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Submitted

1 VOTE

Change search box color

The stark contrast from black to white can be a problem for some users. Suggest allowing ability to customize the background color of the black search box at the top menu bar (11.2.4 version).

3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

1 VOTE

System default choice for list view

When looking at team content reports on a list view, you can choose the settings/row size, with options for compact, short, and default. We want to make one the system default. We don't have the option to do so.

3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

2 VOTE

REST API: My Content

/api/v1/content/my_content/items leads to only the contents of the My Content folder of the user logged in to the session used in the REST API call. Administrators must be able to manage content across My Content folders for all users. Please prov...

5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

4 VOTE

New FunctionalityTo Run Cognos Schedules For A Given Period Of Time After Outages

A regular question from our end users whenever there is a Cognos outage and they don't receive their schedule reports is, "Will I get them eventually?". However, since those reports were never loaded into the scheduling queue because of the outage...

11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

3 VOTE

Add/Enable XQE profiling to Log My Session

We have a need to look into report/dataset performance problems in our production environment. For this we intend to use Dynamic Query Analyzer to analyze log files generated by Cognos Analytics. Currently these log files requires to be turned on ...

8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

1 VOTE

Allow for additional (administrator defined) locations for deployment archives to be placed, other than the single location defined in Cognos Configuration

Being able to direct backups to additional locations allows for greater data protection and security of those backups. For example, being able to direct specific backups to a mapped offsite storage location, NAS, or other high availability storage...

3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

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