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Allow SSO for reporting images in backend reports

Customers wish to have central cloud locations that use credentialed sign on to pull images for reports and not have the reports be ran in the browser.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Allow for blocklist for lsfproxyd to persist through reboots.

When lsfproxyd restarts, the block list is removed. If the block list was not dumped before or accidentally restarted the lsfproxyd daemon, blocked trouble users can cause problems in the cluster again.
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Future consideration

Being able to default when running a report ad hoc and sending the results by email to 'Attach report output' instead of 'Include link'.

There are scenarios when the user would like a report output sent to them by email instead of a link. It would be helpful if this could be a default option instead of having to manually update this everytime a report is run. It used to default or ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Is a defect

Cognos Analytics encrypts the Excel report

For the existing Cognos Analytics, can export Excel report. However, it cannot be encrypted. Is there any roadmap for supporting Excel encrypted?
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

License Scheduler - Minimum Preemption Time

It's been observed when the license scheduler preempts a job to free up license resources, the job can occasionally be resumed within 1-2 seconds if license features are freed up during that time. This leads to behavior where processes do not prop...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Functionality already exists

Lifecycle management of logs in LSF license scheduler

LSF License Scheduler generates blcollect.log and bid.log, and these logs increase over time. Since the license scheduler does not provide a log management feature, when the logs become too large, the administrator must move the files. Of course, ...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Planned for future release

roleValue should work with measures for the intrinsic properties

When using a measure set, it is very difficult to get the caption of the current measure in a variable. If you wanted a custom format for specific measures in the set, you have to find a clever workaround instead of just making a data item with ro...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add a tool to edit Report XML directly

There are a ton of times where editing an object XML is faster and easier than using the GUI. Not to mention times where you simply can't do what you need via the GUI (more advanced styles in classes for example). An inbuilt tool to edit XML would...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Background Image Sourcing

Standard layout images can be sourced from a URL that is either text or the result of a report expression. The report expression option provides quite a bit of functionality in terms of being able to show different images based on simple or comple...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

add 'default account name' field for a user to store account used for LSF jobs submission & Licenses.

Hello, in current RTM version (v10.2.0.14), it's not possible to define a default account name (used to submit LSF jobs) per RTM user. Is it possible to add such field in the user record to ease the end-user usage. is it also possible, like for em...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 2 Future consideration