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Save to Any Network Location when Scheduling Cognos Report

Currently in Cognos Analytics we only have the option to save a report as XLS, PDF, etc, to any network location when running the report interactively. When scheduling and saving a report to XLS we're limited to what network location we've specifi...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Websphere Application Server Network Deployment support for Cognos 11

Currently Cognos Analytics 11 does not support any Application Server other then the included Websphere Liberty Profile.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics should provide a way to download report in CSV format without truncation.

Users, who want to download large report in CSV format, sometimes receive incomplete report in case network is busy and slow for example. However, there is no way for the users to determine if the received report is complete or not. (Case #TS00240...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show error page when Cognos Analytics service is down and user try to access the gateway URI.

In Cognos Analytics 11, when Cognos Analytics service is down and if you are accessing from gateway URI, then your user will see "this page isn't working" from chrome or white screen for IE or Firefox. When seeing the white screen in IE and Firefo...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Save report output (Excel/PDF) to a local network directory

Currently, when generating reports from Cognos on Cloud, there is no option to direct the report output to a local network file directory. AS-is, without this functionality end users would be unreasonably required to download thousands of pdf file...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Allow users to define network location for saved output

System: Cognos BIActor: User requiring enhanced functionality Cognos allows saving report output to the file system along a very narrow set of boundaries - the root can be defined in the Content Manager global confitg, and subdirectories can be ad...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

The ability to set the SameSite flag to cookies

Cookies are missing some of the security flags, which indicates that the can also be sent over unencrypted network connections, accessed by different types of scripts, risk CSRF attacks and being used inappropriate by sub-domains. We discovered th...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics SSO documentation redo

Fix or communicate the proper and complete configuration for Single Sign On and Image browsing in Cognos 11. Especially using the Cognosisapi.dll and what the configuration needs to be to get this to work. There's been ~2800 hits in the CogNoise w...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove option to print a report output

Currently we offer Cognos as a service. The client subscribes to our product and can use Cognos as their analytics offering. Because the service is physically hosted by us, the idea of printing on a printer connected to the network that the server...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to store and write data into the audit db after a short network issue

When the connection to the Audit DB is lost for a few minutes the created audit data during that time is not written into the db afterwards.In case a RemoteLogServer is in place as a single point of logs the dispatcher who send the logs to the Rem...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration