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Templates for reports cannot be used unless they are saved under the " Templates " folder in Team Content in Cognos Analytics on Cloud on Demand

Due to the limitations of Cognos Analytics on Cloud on-demand environments, users can not modify Team Content files such as Samples and Templates. Once a report template is created and saved as a template, performing modification on it doesn't cha...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

Support for Multi-Factor Authentication

Using a multi-factor authentication account (RSA token) when creating and configuring a shared repository and relational data source causes the user account to lock due to too many attempts using invalid credentials. Please implement support for M...
5 months ago in QMF for z/OS 2 Under review

Add individual Agent task level information into Cognos Audit Package

Using Audit package we would like to get individual task level information defined within an Agent. Currently there is no table/column in the Audit package to fetch that information, only overall Agent level data is present.
25 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Add Cloudera/Impala as supported datasource

My customer Ministero di Giustizia (Italian Ministry of Justice) has an internal team that does statistics and data analysis, and that works with the most disparate databases.The client uses Cloudera/Impala as a data warehouse and it would be very...
8 months ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

Allow tab names based on data when exporting to Excel from Cognos Analytics On Demand

When exporting to Excel from Cognos Analytics On Cloud Hosted we were able to have an admin switch turned on: Set RSVP.EXCEL.PAGEGROUP_WSNAME_ITEMVALUE to true This meant Excel exports could have meaningful tab names based on the data in the repor...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Planned for future release

The product must encrypt all stored user passwords

When a user creates a batch job from QMF zClient, their credentials are stored in plain text (unencrypted) in the following path within a QMF Server Standalone installation: /.../Application Data/IBM/QMF Server/sdata/[userID]/user/.storage Specifi...
2 months ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Enabling the use of Audit reports in Cognos Analytics SaaS

In Cognos Analytics on-Prem version, it is possible to perform Audit reports. However, in the Cloud (SaaS) version, it is not possible to perform audit reports/users in the Cloud (SaaS) version. In contact with IBM Support, the specialist recommen...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Support macOS and Linux on QMF for Workstation 12

QMF for Workstation v12 and above only runs on Windows OS. Provide support for running QMF for Workstation v12 on macOS and Linux platforms as well. This allows full functionality to be provided to users on these platforms.
almost 6 years ago in QMF for z/OS 12 Not under consideration

QMF for Websphere – admin should set preferences for its users

QMF gives the possibility to set preferences and they are stored in the session data for each user and for each different browser in the application data in the machine where QMF was installed. Administrators should set preferences for all the use...
12 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

QMF read only mode

QMF client has an "edit table" mode which issues unnecessary update statements even when a simple select is done. From a security stand point, this is a problem as when the DB2 database is audited, it looks users are doing UPDATES even if they jus...
10 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release