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Incorporate Image Service into the base product.

Incorporate Image Service into the base product so you do not need a additional docker installation of a Linux container so organizations will not install docker.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Not under consideration

Provide Offline Availability for controller.js and controller-ddmUMWvp.js (Learn Panel / Assist Me Panel) in Cognos Analytics

Description / Background: After installing Cognos Analytics 12.0.4 FP1, the loading time of the Cognos home page is significantly increased. The reason is that the application tries to fetch external JavaScript files (controller.js and controller-...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Setting the content defaults globally

In CA 11.2.1 you can set up content similar to Cognos Connection in 10.2 if you change to List View, row size "Compact" and sort by "Type". Unfortunately this has to be set for every browser for every client because this custom settings will be st...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

More Authentication Support for Content Store with Azure SQL DB

Hi, As more company are moving to cloud, we need more modern method of authentication for content store. Currently for MSSQL, SQL or Windows authentication is supported. In the Azure Entra ID, we need support for authentication with the Managed Id...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Future consideration

Allow to unregister Dispatchers before starting CM for first time

When an upgrade via a DB backup/restore is done, if both CA versions (old and new) will be ON, it is expected that "old" version Dispatchers to be already registered in the "new" site, because "old" and "new" DB's data is the same. So, when starti...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Need IBM to support userid,password for proxy server authentication

For OIDC configuration for B2C to connect to B2C Tenant we are migrating to a proxy (ZScaler) with Use ID password - Cognos does not support userid password for authenticating to a proxy server. This is a issue for use because UPS Information Secu...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Allow the addition of new components during the upgrade process.

At present, upgrading Cognos Analytics reads the currently installed components from the cmplst.txt file, and only upgrades those components. It is not possible to add any additional or new components (for example, Image Service) during an upgrade...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

remove MSSQL deprecated datatypes from schema

Microsoft SQL Server has deprecated the data types TEXT, IMAGE or NTEXT. Is there an effort to update the audit, notification store and content store databases to use new data types such as: (varchar(max), nvarchar(max), varbinary(max) and etc.). ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Planned for future release

Please implement the functionality of separating the management of the "Team Content" and "My content" directories of the IBM Cognos Analytics portal.

Hi, IBM Developers Team (IBM). Please implement the functionality of disabling/enabling the "Copy to" menu button in the "Team Content" and "My content" directories not globally, but locally for these directories. It is impossible to simultaneousl...
12 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 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

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