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Improve Admin logging level in Cognos logs to capture all the events

Admin activity applies to all the users who use the UI. A user in the context of this deliverable is anybody that uses the application including other teams and the application team themselves. Admin activity applies to the application code unique...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Audit for Schedules

The Cognos Audit package should be able to report on All schedules in Cognos for all users with details and the list of recipients for the report. This is helpful for internal and external audits for security to identify if the report is going to ...
26 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Audit DB - Report and E-Mail reception

It would be desirable to have a function in the audit DB to find out which report is sent to which e-mail addresses (incl. storage path). Currently this is not possible with the standard audit.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Add a server name to the wording "Test message from IBM Cognos Configuration"

Each time a server reboots, it sends out an email message with the subject "Test message from IBM Cognos Configuration." We have multiple instances of Cognos and it would be nice to know which server is sending out this message. Is there a way to ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Need a way to find list of reports that are written using user-defined sql

We need a way to find a list of reports that are written using user-defined sql.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Data Source for OnBase Document Management System

Currently in IBM Cognos, there is no data source add capability for Highland's OnBase Document Management system. it would be really helpful if IBM can add a data source to read the documents stored in OnBase to use it in Cognos Reports or Dashboa...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Email notification when job or tasks within job fail

We make use of datasets and have a job to schedule the refresh for these datasets every night. Sometimes the refresh fails for some reason. At this moment we don't get any notification that something went wrong. We would like to be able to configu...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Add a feature in account management to see which user group a user belongs to

I can take a look at the user group to see which user belongs to that group. However, there is no way to see which user group a user belongs to. So you need to contact the user and ask them to take a look at their settings. Please add a feature in...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Deploy custom global palettes which are only used as conditionial palettes too

When a custom global palette is only used in a conditional palette of a visualization of a dashboard, then after export and import of the dashboard on the target system the custom global palette is missing and the conditional palette of the visual...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enhance the audit log rollover features in Cognos. This is hardcoded and rollover should be configurable

Everyone who administers Cognos Analytics or CA nodes would benefit from the functionality working as it had in the past (and as expected in general).
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration