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Search results: Cognos Analytics

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Cognos Analytics Archive Location automatic reconnect after network disconnection

Jobs scheduled in Cognos Analytics began failing when using an Archive Location. An error indicating that the archive location file system root could not be found. The root cause was due to a network connection issue and as a result Cognos Analyti...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos as standard service on Linux

Also applicable for PMR 87056 003 756.Would like to get a good reliable Cognos start / stop / restart / status script for Cognos as a service on Linux that stands in the standards of the Linux daemons: • Start/stop via service interface • Daem...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restart Individual Services with one click in Cognos

When stopping and starting individual services in Cognos Administration without restarting all services, there should be a "restart" option in addition to "stop" and "start". It would start the service as soon as the service successfully stops -- ...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

scheduling administrative tasks

Possibility to e.g. schedule restart of dispathers. schedule refresh report server connections
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Automatically retrive latest SSL certs from LDAP or Active Directory for LDAPS instead of manual updating them in SSL Cert Database

Current Scenario - Every time SSL cert is renewed/updated on LDAP server, Cognos administrator needs to manually update the CERT database on Cognos server and restart Cognos Services. Too much coordination is needed between multiple teams on this,...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Transparent content manager switch

Today when a content manager switch to standby (as failover or when activating manually by admin team), the switch is not transparent towards users. The active sessions are kept but all ongoing report/report view/job exeuctions are failing. We wou...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

do not cache domain server on startup

At present, if Cognos Analytics is configured to point at a domain name instead of a specific domain controller Cognos Analytics will cache the domain controller's IP it receives on start-up and use that controller until the next restart. As the c...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Cognos BI to operate and co-exist with ipstatus conntrack "stateful "firewall" with "default" configuration settings

New Functionality requested with Cognos:When Oracle maintenance is required to be carried out there will always be a Cognos CS instance available. We're seeking for Cognos BI to operate in such a manner to ensure that it ipstatus conntrack table o...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Restart on IBM WebSphere Application Server Admin Console

We cannot restart cognos application on IBM WebSphere Application Server Admin Console because of "JCAM_Crypto_JNI (Library is already loaded in another ClassLoader) Error". We want to restart cognos application on IBM WebSphere Application. So, p...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add monitoring/alerting on indexing service

There is no direct option to monitor and alert if index service stop working, there is no option to start it again except restart the whole environment and if it stops the search option in cognos portal doesnt work anymore as well as the user do n...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration