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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...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Integration of a upload file scanning feature in Cognos

Currently, when users upload files into Cognos, there is no mechanism in place to scan these files for potential threats or issues. This lack of a scanning feature could potentially expose the system and its users to security risks.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

fix the Cognos license counts for users who don't login

After Capabilities updated, admin licenses are incorrectly showing counts for users who don't login. Analytics Administrator license count should match the number of System Administrators.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow for a deployment export object to maintain a specific history (ie, 4+current) of deployment archives, or unlimited versions, as part of the definition.

Supplementary to CA-I-4375, it would be ideal if the deployment export definition allowed for the deployment archives to be maintained by the product (ie, maintaining 4 historic archives, plus current, removing the last archive on next successful ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

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 ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

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 ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Cognos 12 GUI: Cannot highlight group/user name, report or folder and copy the name in the portal

Horrible Cognos 12 GUI: Cannot highlight group/user name and copy. It is an image. With Cognos 11 we at least had a backdoor option of using the ‘classic’ view (Cognos 7-10 versions) and could highlight and copy security groups and users.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Too much wasted space between Name and location in the Portal

Notice you cannot change the column width. The location is cut off. I could hover over it but I should not have to do that. Too much wasted space between Name and location.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Organization methods for extensions

At the moment the extensions appears as a list. When you have dozens of extensions it can be painful to find any specific extension. I'd like to add tags to extensions that will allow the admin to filter the list. I see it as being part of the spe...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted