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Status Planned for future release
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 5, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

New capabilities for CSV and PDF export

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

As we want to make sure we follow security standards for our Cognos platform in Production environment (no PDF/CSV/XLS outputs allowed), we currently managed to remove PDF/CSV/XLS report export capability for our customers in Production - CA version 11.1.7 FP2.

We did that by customizing permissions on the following capabilities:

Generate CSV Output

Generate PDF Output

Generate XLS Output

and we saw it applies only for Reports, for:

- interactive sessions

- background sessions

- schedules

- Event Studio

- job steps

However, for some objects, PDF/CSV export is still possible:

1. Dashboards and Stories can be exported to PDF using Share -> Export functionality.

We created a PMR: "TS004800920 Removal of PDF export capability for stories and dashboards" and the suggestion was to hide the Export to PDF button:

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_11.1.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ag_manage.doc/t_ca_manage_example_removing_feature.html

2. We also noticed that underlying data from Dashboard Visualizations can be exported into CSV format:

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.1.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ca_new.doc/c_ca_nf_11_1_7_export_data_CSV.html

We created a PMR: "TS004886228 Removal of CSV export capability for underlying data in dashboard visualizations". No workaround possible.

Needed by Date Mar 1, 2021

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