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Add configuration setting to stop saving the descriptor file when a report is saved to the file system

a configuration to avoid the creation of the XML descriptor file when creating the output file (example: My report-en-us.pdf will have a descriptor file named My report-en-us_desc.xml)
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Ability to enforce an end date for a scheduled report or job.

This will allow Administrators to better manage schedules and not have users create schedules that could be in the system for an extended period.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Would like to be able to use data source credentials as variables in the JDBC connection strings

When using the latest MSSQL driver we can utilize connection parameters: domain=targetdomain;authenticationScheme=NTLM;user=sa;password=thepassword to allow Windows Authentication using a service account other than the one running IBM Cognos servi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

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 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

REST API for viewing and managing object permissions

Enables users/IT support to find the permissions required to access a folder. Enables automation for configuring object permissions. Deploying permissions as part of a pre-defined Request For Change Verifying/monitoring that permissions are accurate.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

update internal load balancer algorithm to include system resources.

This will help additional failures when dynamic query heap get maxed.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Support of Temporary AWS credentials for S3 Cloud Storage

In order to retrieve the access key and secret required for configuring report output delivery to Amazon S3 a user with IAM role is required. Internal security is pushing back on issuing a user with that role. Not sure what the alternatives are, b...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enable 'take ownership' without having to give full permission

After importing content from onprem to cloud, all the ownership is set to the admin that did the import. Already had problems after that because of max upload restrictions of 500 Mb er user. Users that have write permissions should be able to take...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Simplified Single IP for Audit logging service when using multiple NICs

Problem Statement: When servers have multiple network adapter cards, Cognos audit is logged as a mix of both the IPs. This makes it difficult for customers to analyze audit data and there is a slight chance that you might miss the data unless you ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Additional ciphers needed for NSS library

Hello, If possible, please add additional ciphers to the NSS library for the following Cognos version: 11.1.7 11.2.1 11.2.2 11.2.3 The additional ciphers are: TLSv1.2 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 We...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

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