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Cognos Analytics

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When we are scheduling the report via trigger, password should be hidden or we should be able to run the trigger without password

as you understand it is dangerous to hardcode password in a bat file where it is visible by anyone
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

OIDC Support - use access token for claims

Currently Cognos passes claims in id token along with user information. implementation at many customer applications is using access token for claims. request to provide this option.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

My parameters feature - improved security evaluation

Hello, we are using the My parameters feature in cognos where from one place we can share the prompt selection cross many reports as default option. We have a lot of security in our system including data source/package levels. When using my parame...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Small screenshot / sample of saved output object without opening or executing the object

This is just an idea I got when thinking about how do the report look, what columns are present, how can I look through a number of long running reports without having to either execute them or go into edit mode for each of the reports? What if, t...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

More Detailed Version Information in the cmplst.txt file

This is for the purpose of easily determining the installed version of Cognos and what the current Fix Pack is. We intend to use this in TSSA to run a script that would populate the version in the systems listing. No users impacted, just those tha...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Remove options for functionality Save on external Filesystem

We are offering customers to provide Reports via A2A which they have to store on the filesystem. Unfortunately many customers are using the standard report name to store the reports on the filesystem with the usage of 'replace existing files'. Due...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Improper Session Management (PMR-TS007941522)

security can be tightened. Multiple sessions of are restricted.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Autocomplete enabled for the sensitive field - Cognos 11.1.7 IF9

This gives more security and userid/password is safe from intruders.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Proper role not defined for Edit options link in Run as dialog

Proper role not defined for Edit options link in Run as dialog E.g: Screen reader announces 'Edit options' for Edit options link
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Support for open jdk

Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 and future releases - Provide support for open jdk (current version) openjdk version "11.0.17" 2022-10-18 LTS Infosec requires the java version on our servers to be up to date and they scan the servers weekly.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration