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Search results: Install and config

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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

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

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

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 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Location of business data

Use a dedicated database schema for report output and dataset storage. Report outputs and datasets stored in a their own schema (not the content store schema) Could be a new database store alongside the existing ones (Content Store, Audit Store, N...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics Connectivity to MongoDB Atlas SQL using JDBC

We are testing connectivity between CA and Atlas SQL Interface (MongoDB Cloud DB) using the JDBC Connection by passing all the required parameters as per the guidelines and the test data source connection ends with an error message - (not certifie...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Planned for future release

Request for the addition of a generic JDBC driver connector to enable users to connect any database in Cognos Analytics.

We would like to propose the addition of a generic JDBC driver connector in Cognos Analytics. This feature would allow users to connect to any database that supports JDBC, providing the flexibility to use a wide range of database systems with Cogn...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Functionality already exists

Request for an enhancement to include a Jira connector in future releases of Cognos Analytics.

We propose the addition of a Jira connector in future versions of Cognos Analytics. This feature would allow users to directly connect Jira as a data source within Cognos, simplifying the analysis and reporting of critical project data such as tic...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Not under consideration

Trouble with setting date format in the Date Prompt (Date Prompt does not have Data Format property) when the Content Language is set to Ukrainian or Ukrainian(Ukraine).

Hello. This is a burning need: we need full support for the Ukrainian language in the IBM Cognos Analytics product. This revision will affect a large number of product users who use the product constantly. We're having trouble with setting dat...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Add Support for SLES 15.x

I received a follow up response from our Product Management team. They confirmed the following: Hi Mark, yes, we currently don't support SLES 15.x. It will be great if you can ask the client to log an IDEA on this so we can track this request for ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Delivered