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Search results: Administration

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ability to set default value for email delivery method.

When users run a report using ‘Run as’ and select email as delivery method there will be two options they can select one or both.1. Include link 2. Attach output Prior CA 11.1.7FP4 the default selection was option 1: Include link. IBM made an enha...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Planned for future release

Improve Admin logging level in Cognos logs to capture all the events

Admin activity applies to all the users who use the UI. A user in the context of this deliverable is anybody that uses the application including other teams and the application team themselves. Admin activity applies to the application code unique...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 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 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Remove admin vulnerability on routing sets when non admin users copy data modules / packages / files

Only cognos administrators can create and edit routing sets. This allows administrators to specify that certain cognos dispatchers should only be used for certain bits of data. For example all the Finance data modules / packages should be sent to ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enhancement to IPPA tool to capture performance metrics behind report executions. Ref - Jijiang (George) Xu

1. IPPA does not capture detailed performance metrics for CQM Queries Vs DQM Queries 2. RQPPreparingCursorForDataFetching and RQPPreparingCognosSQL are two actions that take most UDA/data access time. George thought it would be good to break the q...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow for a deployment export object to maintain a specific history (ie, 4+current) of deployment archives, or unlimited versions, as part of the definition.

Supplementary to CA-I-4375, it would be ideal if the deployment export definition allowed for the deployment archives to be maintained by the product (ie, maintaining 4 historic archives, plus current, removing the last archive on next successful ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

A feature for "Retention tags" to establish retention categories and date ranges for Object in the Portal.

A feature that would allow users/admins to set a date limit on reports or any object so say they wanted a report only to be available for 1 week they could set it to be deleted from the portal April 18th lets say...or for a year, April 11th 2024.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Unreliable Component Combinations

Issue: When elements have multiple Namers or multiple Describers, screen reader precedence differs wildly. To minimize these differences and ensure consistent screen reader output, follow ANDI's methodology. Elements are using more than 1 "Namers"...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Disable query hints at report level to avoid override model level or server level governance

There are a few governors that we want to ensure they cannot be overridden at report level. 1. Maximum row retrieved (report level)/Maximum number of retrieved rows (model level) 2. Maximum execution time (report level)/Query execution time limit ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration