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Cognos Analytics

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Implement an option to read DB credentials from AWS Secret Manager rather than embedding a signon in Cognos Analytics.

Centralised secrets management lowers administration overhead - being able to integrate with a standard secrets repository and leverage those security factors would reduce maintenance within Cognos Analytics.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Optimizations of the "Send report by email" dialog

When creating schedules or run a report you can set options for sending report by email. Here are some suggestions for improvement for this dialog: 1) If we enter the first five digits of the user ID and click on 'Search directory', some users wer...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Uploaded file with frameworkmanager package

Now, when you create an uploaded file and you want to combine it with a framework manager package, you have to create a datamodule. We want to have it directly, a framework manager package with uploaded file without a datamodule.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Allow wallets for mTLS to be accessed from Cloud Object Storage

As cloud-based datasources become the norm, security is becoming stronger by default. As an example, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW), supports Mutual TLS (mTLS) via wallet-based security as a default mechanism. Cognos Analytics on Cloud (On...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

systemd template unit files for Cognos Analytics

Currently, Cognos Analytics does not support an automatic service start via systemd template unit files on RHEL7 and 8. systemd allows us to control boot time dependencies with more granularity so tht we can control situation like start Cognos Ana...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Not under consideration

DKIM

with e-mail spoofing on the rise the use of SPF, DKIM and DMARC are on the raise as Cognos Analytics can send e-mails out to user's it would be nice if Cognos Analytics could be configured to use DKIM with the e-mails so companies can use tighter ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Tenant Export Feature Enhancements

The current tenant export feature does not export users "My Folders" i.e. their personal folders and schedules. The feature will export Cognos Custom Security roles which are in the Cognos namespace but does not include the membership of these roles.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Macro to get user groups and or roles in cognos or ad

For the moment in reporting and fm there are only macro that are able to get security information of the user logged in. Example:CSVIdentityNameList(). I would like to have a macro that shows roles and groups (at least inside cognos namespace)...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Filtertext should be formatable

The query filter text object should have style and format properties like other text elements.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11.0.10 Custom Group Issue

when a report is created using a model level filter with a dimension and measure column, all the values present in dimension column are not getting displayed when a custom group is defined on that dimension column, instead only few values are disp...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration