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Make the -H switch mandatory when generating a CSR with Third-Party Certificate Tool, OR either print a warning, or default to the current host if not specified.

Currently the documentation for 12.1.0 does not specify, in the topic for generation of CSR files (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.1.x?topic=certificate-create-signing-request-csr-files), that at least one Subject Alternative Name ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Provide greater flexibility in confidence values to trigger the "No Matches"

The customer would like to customize the confidence values set in the ‘No Matches’ settings to 'Rarely', 'Sometimes', and 'More Often', by defining their own values for triggering Actions and setting values within custom intervals.
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Improvement to Report Bursting: Recover from a fail, better error reporting

When bursting a report it is difficult to work out which parts of the burst have been successful or not. After a burst Cognos should be able to tell you which burst keys were successfully burst and if any emails were sent. It should also be able t...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

End user monitoring & Audit logging in PAW

Currently in PA workspace local release 29, there is no utility to extract user activity in PA Workspace based on different PAW specific events. We are looking for an Audit logging feature in PAW like TM1. Unfortunately TM1 audit logging was not c...
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ignore opening balances on import

Many customers copy opening balances forward then load trial balances which contain opening balances. To avoid overwriting the copied forward OBs a separate form excluding OBs has to be used in the delete tab of the import specification. This dupl...
over 2 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

On the Calculation grid view include an option to see all calls where the queue is greater than 0

When you have a lot of calculations you need to see how they are processing and there is no easy way of seeing all the calcs that have something queued. Providing an option to show all calculations that have work queued would be really useful to s...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Add last date any component in the configuration pane was modified and user

We would like to have last day somebody modified workflow/jobs/views... in order to trace it back to a date and a person.
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Globally change the value of input customized parameters included in a defined filter

[The description for problem] Customized parameter is not applied all visualizations on Dashboard. When we create a filter with the parameter (i.e. pCountry) under Manage >Customizatio >Parameters on a data module and apply it on a dashboard...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Change Font type and size on map labels

Currently there does not seem to be any way to change the font size or type of labels on maps. The current labels can be resized but that is it. As a result of this, the clarity of the label is not good and difficult to clearly make out. This is e...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Possibility to use threshold for Real Diff. (=transaction currency amount) in IC reports

When running the Group/Reconcile/Intercompany Balances Report we are only interested in the Real difference, i.e. the difference in the reported amount between a debtor and a creditor in the transaction currency . The IC report includes however bo...
about 1 year ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration