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Cognos Analytics

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Do not display deleted reports in the "Recent Items" list.

Deleted reports should not be listed in the "Recent Items" list.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Upgrade Bouncy Castle java library for SSL certificate avec with Extension Key Usage Critical

The library Bouncy Castle use into Cognos Analytics 11.0.8 don't support certificats with Extension Key Usage flag as Critical (Ex: TLS Web Authentification).
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Report Dependencies / Data Dictionary

Please add a Report Dependencies / Data Dictionary function to Cognos Analytics in the Cloud.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

DCadmin.bat dynamic cube utility needs to support SSO

dcadmin.bat does not work for environments with SSO..Baxter has a large complicated global multiple dispatcher environment which is now bring on dynamic cubes... administration of many Dynamic cubes is very painful from within Cognos, sometimes im...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Server Connection Routing Rule Support

For authenticating Kerberos JDBC data server connections, it is necessary to have all routing requests handled by specific Kerberos JDBC dispatchers. In an attempt to use Group/Role routing tags for dispatcher routing, the data server connections ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Improving garbage collector for DB connections

Database sessions and connections ar estill open and running, even if the script was stopped on Cognos-side.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enhance capabilities for welcome page customization

Currently the themes allow a few cosmetic properties to be updated while customizing the welcome page for Cognos Analytics. I was looking to be able to customize the navbarpushbuttonforeground color property but it does not exist, only the navbarp...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Log parameter values earlier

System: Cognos Analytics 11Actor: administrator investigating report and query problemsDescription: Cognos logs parameter values AFTER the query has completed. This is too late for troubleshooting.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SAML support for Apache Webserver and REMOTE_USER variable

In previous versions of Cognos (8.x, 10.x) we populated the environment variable REMOTE_USER in Apache webserver using SAML for SSO. IBM support indicates that this is not supported in Cognos Analytics 11.x. We want to be able to continue to use S...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show format Icons for saved output versions

Please show the output format of saved outputs in the reports again similar to C10 so that users can see what format they will download when clicking on a report
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release