Add or remove a maintenance message - IBM Documentation
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.2.0?topic=settings-customizing-messages-in-alerts-banner
Manage > Configuration > System > Advanced > Custom Settings
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1. Disable or enable all messages.

Glass.disableAlertEntry - false

2. Disable or enable the What's New alerts

Glass.disableWhatsNewAlerts - true

3. Add or remove a maintenance message

Glass.maintenanceMessage
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Chadman Hult
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Original Message:
Sent: Tue October 15, 2024 06:11 AM
From: Mack L
Subject: Disabling the welcome banner in Cognos 11.2.4
Hi Patrick,
None of these is working for me surprisingly, neither setting the default user profile nor the Manage>people>account settings or the key, value settings in Manage >Configuration>System....... Custom settings. The default profile setting worked in our Cognos 11.2.4 Development environment but none of the options is working in the Cognos production environment of the same version, 11.2.4.
I think it would be better to approach IBM support. Thank you for the suggestions.
Best Regards,
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Mack L
Original Message:
Sent: Tue October 15, 2024 03:50 AM
From: Patrick Neveu
Subject: Disabling the welcome banner in Cognos 11.2.4
Hi Mack,
If you are an administrator, do the following:
Click on Manage / People / Account.
Select the Cognos namespace then a role* on which you will apply the following:
For instance, click on System administrators, Properties then Customization tab.
Click on Default for the Features option.
Go to Home then you can disable or enable whatever you need:
Click Apply button to save your change. You can do the same for another role.
* You don't have the Customize tab for user or group, only for role.
Best regards,
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Patrick Neveu
Collaboration Betters The World (CBTW)
IBM Champion
Original Message:
Sent: Mon October 14, 2024 11:45 AM
From: Mack L
Subject: Disabling the welcome banner in Cognos 11.2.4
Hi,
I am not able to do this (for all users) in our new Cognos prod environment. I tried two ways:
- Unchecking the 'Show the Welcome page at start up' in the Default user profile which works for all users logging in for the first time and
- Entering the values Glass.disableAlertBanner and Glass.disableWelcomeBanner and setting the values to true in the Manage >Configuration > System > Advanced Settings > Custom settings
Neither of the above works for me. Would like to mention that I had used 1. from the above successfully in our test environment (11.2.4) but neither of the above works in the prod environment (11.2.4). Please suggest
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Mack L
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