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    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.
    about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Planned for future release

    QMF read only mode

    QMF client has an "edit table" mode which issues unnecessary update statements even when a simple select is done. From a security stand point, this is a problem as when the DB2 database is audited, it looks users are doing UPDATES even if they jus...
    10 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

    Improve administration of Scheduled Reports

    We have a CA enterprise system that has been live for over 15+ years. Over that time users have created hundred of schedules. Some of those schedules are on reports they have created themselves or report views. Some of those schedules error becaus...
    about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 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 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

    Add eventid to Audit database (COGIPF_RUNREPORT)

    The eventid is important for SDK applications and should be written to Audit database (COGIPF_RUNREPORT). For example when we want to determine a history object from the information provided in the Audit database. Currently there are only the sess...
    8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

    Request of a way of keeping OIDC user profiles with consistency check

    The Consistency check doesn't work in an OpenId environment. We are trying to keep our database to the minimum size possible and also cleaning up when user are deleted from AD, etc. This function is not supported right now from what the support sa...
    8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

    Audit tables with userfriendly content

    We use audit-db a lot, mainly for run and usage statistics and for trouble solving. In order to make the result more readable/understandable we do a lot of string conversions etc. This makes audit reports and dataset refresh slow. The retrieval of...
    almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

    Glass interface for setting advanced settings improvements

    Within CA Glass interface to set advanced settings you have to go to:Manage > Configuration > System > Advanced Settings On this screen you can type in a Key. If the key has been set then the value of the key will be shown. This is a very...
    almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

    Ability to rerun failed reports/jobs/agents in batch, from IBM Cognos Administration -> Past Activities screen

    Why is it useful? In a busy production cognos analytics environments, when an unplanned outage occur, it's common to see multiple report/agent/job failures. Administrators need to go to "view run history", and rerun failed requests. It is very tim...
    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 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

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