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Case of letters in objects paths

There is a problem when switching between MSSQL and Oracle databases. Both databases may have the same structure and naming convention. In MSSQL, object paths use a naming convention where only the first letter of each entity is capitalized (e.g.,...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Planned for future release

Cognos Analytics Cube designer supports Denodo Datasource

At this moment IBM does not support the Cognos Analytics clients like Framework Manager and Cube Designer in combination with Denodo, We are within a migration from Netezza (End of Life) to Db2/Denodo Denodo supports Cognos (So tells their website...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Use certified hashing function bcrypt/Argon2 in users.xml

Symphony 7.3.2 uses AES-128 encryption for the passwords storage in the local users.xml file, which is not compliant with Citi Cryptography Standard. Only below hashing algorithms are approved for passwords hashing. Citi requests IBM to use bcrypt...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Key pair AuthN of Cognos with Snowflake jdbc driver

We currently are using AD as our namespace and would like to connect to Snowflake via JDBC connection using key pair AuthN.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

auto loading of metadata in data server connection

At the moment it is not possible to automatically (re)load the meta data for a data server connection. It would be helpful to have a way to automate this with a timer job or something else, so that users dont have to do a manual refresh of the met...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data Module - Possibility to join DC, PA cube, File and FM sources

Possibility create joins in Data module between different type of data sources. E.g. it is not possible to join two dynamic cubes on the fly or enrich Cube data with excel or to combine Planning analytics data to Dynamic Cubes.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Prevent copying of data modules

We want to allow a user to use a data module in Reporting perspective but he should not be able to copy the data module. On the copied data module the user is the owner and has full permissions. It is not possible to prevent copying of data module...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

Enable Global Capacity Limits in HostFactory with Configurable Requestor-Level Control

Background: The CVA environment comprises of two application types: Under /cva parent Consumer – must run exclusively on on-demand instances. Under /cvaSpot parent Consumer – can run workload on both on-demand and spot instances. To support this a...
3 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0

Blockchain integration as a data source

Would like to see integration of Blockchain as a data source in Cognos Analytics. Currently the only way to tap into it from cognos is to export to a relational data source then use it as a static which isn't desirable. Outside of that we have to ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

We need to know if the session/task is from SMC

We are working to use SMC (Symphony MultiCluster). Since there is no database schema change, we can't tell if the session/task is from SMC. We created TS019242798 and know there is global id in PERF soamdb temp file (session_history/task_attribute...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Not under consideration