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Cognos Analytics

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Customer wants to set a Schedule report frequency multiple times a day. there is no option to schedule hourly refresh in the on demand offering.. Currently we only have options for Daily, Weekly and Monthly as per documentation

Response from Support - From: JEREMY BEATHAM < jbeatham@au1.ibm.com >As we’ve covered previously, the capability of the product is more limited in the offereing chosen to develop this solution. As previously highlighted for other functionali...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Under review

When restoring content with "CM.DEPLOYMENTINCLUDECONFIGURATION=True", offer an option to merge the configration parameters from the old to new dispatcher.

It is not always possible to deploy content to servers with identically-named hosts. Currently, all of the configurations (including tuning settings and advanced parameters at the dispatcher and service levels) are deployed into the "old" dispatch...
30 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted
182 VOTE

Ability for administrator to see users groups, roles and capabilities

As an administrator it would be very helpful and useful to be able to see the groups, roles and capabilities assigned to a specific user.It would help the administrator understand why a users is signed for a specific license.Eg.: Why is user AAA r...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Add support for ssl key lengths greater than 2048 bit

Cognos Analytics currently supports a maximum key length of 2048 bit for ssl certificates. The limit seems to derive from the ThirdPartyCertificateTool, but might affect the whole ecosystem including Planning Analytics, PAW and Jupyter Notebook Se...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Ability to notify time-out warning for the user before the actual timeout occur in Cognos Analytics Portal

Why is it Useful: Accessibility Time-out warning notification enhancement request: The use of timed events can present significant barriers for users with cognitive disabilities, as these users may require more time to read content or to perform f...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 3 Future consideration
193 VOTE

Ability to set size for Search & Select Prompt

By default the Select and Search prompt is a fixed size which makes it difficult for us to layout other components on our prompt page that align with this S&S component. Also, with its fixed size, it makes it difficult for us to render the pag...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Custom Authentication should be able to be debuged.

Currently if you try to debug a Custom Authentication Provider it is slow and unable. This is related to the Websphere Liberty addion. Some one in dev needs to look to see how to set this up so when trying to debug is not completly unusable. Also ...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

SDK Update.

The SDK that ships with Cognos is out of date. An example of this is the cookie UP. This cookie can out in Cognos 11 but it not in the SDK. This is a big problem since the cookie is required to open up the Job screen in 11.2.4 FP 3.
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Windows Services should stop all the Cognos Services.

When restarting the Cognos Service all Cognos components are not shutdown. Windows Services should be the control for the environment. This is import for a redistributed since we have to deal with the issues cause by having part of the server stil...
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Add Option to Create a new job step to Action Menu of Report

Currently, we add new reports to an existing job by navigating to the job and editing it by adding a new job step. Our idea is to add an option to the Action Menu of the report which would allow us to add it it to an existing job. There is current...