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Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration

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

REST API: return more object details

For the Cognos Analytics REST API to provide the ability to remotely and automatically administer Cognos Analytics, all information about objects must be available through the REST API. Please make detailed items like report specifications, data m...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Maintenance page instead of Cognos start page only for standard users, not for admins

If we have problems with Cognos, we want to withdraw access from all users except for admins so data / reports can be tested after successful repairs. The Cognos information banner does not help, because it is overlooked. Furthermore, users can by...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Possibility for administrator to Clear/empty dataset

Possibility for administrator to Clear/empty dataset. As an administrator I can not clear/empty datasets. I can only delete datasets. Having possibility to clear/empty datasets I could force users to refresh their datasets without ruining the appl...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Audit tables with userfriendly content

We use audit-db a lot, mainly for run and usage statistics and for trouble solving. In order to make the result more readable/understandable we do a lot of string conversions etc. This makes audit reports and dataset refresh slow. The retrieval of...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Simplified Single IP for Audit logging service when using multiple NICs

Problem Statement: When servers have multiple network adapter cards, Cognos audit is logged as a mix of both the IPs. This makes it difficult for customers to analyze audit data and there is a slight chance that you might miss the data unless you ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Data set security to be inherited from data source security

When a data set is created (from a package), it should inherits the security of the data source on which the package is based. For example, a DataAccessRole with Read, Write, Execute, Traverse is defined as security on the data source. When crea...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Possibility to set retention rules on datasets

Use case: A customer requests to be forgotten. Requests that he/she wants to be removed from data sources where possible. From a GDPR perspective we need to be able to manage datasets containing data. e.g. data source has been updated (user inform...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Remove unsuccessful login entries labeled as "Not Available" from Cognos Analytics audit package

When we tried to find out the logon information using the audit package in Cognos Analytics then we noticed that the user name details are showing as 'not available' in the audit report. Detailed explanation: When the logging level for ContentMana...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration