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Cognos Analytics

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Modifying the Default Portal Action Globally

Is it possible to modify the default properties of a report in Cognos Connection on a global basis? The Cognos default action of a report is ‘View Most Recent Report’. We need to change that to ‘Run Report’ but would like to do it on a global basi...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Make Report Modified Date - Actual Date Report Changed

The Report Modified date now changes randomly and does not reflect the date the report was actually changed by a user - this make visually auditing for report changes impossible
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Ability to adjust attributes of users via REST API such as the tenant-id

With use of the REST API we create users in our multi tenant environment to automate the onboarding of new customers and new users. While doing this we would like to assign a user directly to the correct tenant. We experience that adding the tenan...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Ability to "Run Once" list of schedules under IBM Cognos Administration -> Schedules and My Schedules and Subscriptions screens

Why is it useful? Currently, in-order to run any enabled schedule once, administrators need to go into each schedule "Run the schedule once..." option. It is very time consuming run each schedule manually if there's a need to run list of schedules...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Support for Platform Connections in Cognos Analytics on CP4D

Currently, as of 4.8.x, CP4D's version of Cognos Analytics does not support adding connections from Platform Connections. The customer requests support for Platform Connections in CA on CP4D. Additionally, Cognos Analytics should support both Pers...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Optimize current implementation of S3 cloud storage

The current implementation of S3 cloud storage has some disadvantages. It's a "fire-and-forget" approach which has the following disadvantages in detail from our point of view: Files with the same name will be overwritten in S3. Idea: add a timest...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Use S3 for externalization of outputs

Our content stores (currently DB2) are growing through more and bigger outputs from reports although we have a rigid housekeeping. But in any case, we are limited to a certain content store size. And database storage is very expensive. File extern...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Add Data Set operations to audit logging

Add user actions surrounding data set creation/modification/refreshes to audit logs. When researching when a data set was refreshed, there seems to be nothing in the audit logs that stores that this action happened. Request data set refresh and an...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Report and Job run status should be at a User's tenant level

Currently on a Multi tenant setup, users are able to see public Report/Job run status in Cognos administration. Although the only visible details users see are the name of the report/job, time of execution, status and the name of the user who runs...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Remove unsuccessful login entries labeled as "Not Available" from Cognos Analytics audit package

When we tried to find out the logon information using the audit package in Cognos Analytics then we noticed that the user name details are showing as 'not available' in the audit report. Detailed explanation: When the logging level for ContentMana...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration