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Data source support for SAP BW4/HANA

SAP announced new BW4HANA platform at autumn 2016, which is a performance optimized and much simpler approach than old BW on HANA solution, which IBM does support. BW4HANA should be added as supported data source to allow high-performance access t...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Share SandBox

Add the capability to share a sandbox and have multiple contributor at the same time
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

ER should have an option to replicate tables between different databases

Currently there is not an option in ER that would allows us to replicate a table from database A to database B. You must use the same database. There are real life situations where you need to replicate a table to a differente server/instance/data...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Needs more information

Remove admin vulnerability on routing sets when non admin users copy data modules / packages / files

Only cognos administrators can create and edit routing sets. This allows administrators to specify that certain cognos dispatchers should only be used for certain bits of data. For example all the Finance data modules / packages should be sent to ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

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 ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Export Simulation Analysis Results

We'd like an ability to export the simulation analysis results, including all rule and attribute related analyses. We'd like to be able to do simulation and analysis for a longer period of time (30, 60, 90 days). However, due to memory and time re...
3 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Profile and QA a dataset using RDS composite keys

Most of our RDS have composite keys to create unique codes for different countries and systems. Having an option to use a subset/ filter/where clause using the composite keys of an RDS to profile or quality assure data would be useful. Sample cust...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Custom Authentication should be able to be debuged.

Currently if you try to debug a Custom Authentication Provider it is slow and unable. This is related to the Websphere Liberty addion. Some one in dev needs to look to see how to set this up so when trying to debug is not completly unusable. Also ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

SDK Update.

The SDK that ships with Cognos is out of date. An example of this is the cookie UP. This cookie can out in Cognos 11 but it not in the SDK. This is a big problem since the cookie is required to open up the Job screen in 11.2.4 FP 3.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Windows Services should stop all the Cognos Services.

When restarting the Cognos Service all Cognos components are not shutdown. Windows Services should be the control for the environment. This is import for a redistributed since we have to deal with the issues cause by having part of the server stil...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted