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IBM Cognos Analytics Newsletter March 2021

By Scott WHITEHEAD posted Fri March 26, 2021 04:50 PM

News

Stay up to date with IBM's Making Data Simple podcasts. In early March the host spoke with IBM’s Senior Vice President of IBM Cloud and Data Platform Rob Thomas, and they discussed leadership, hybrid cloud, and data platforms.

Our view on Gartner 2021 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms for Cognos Analytics.

We would also like to share a recent blog by Ryan Dolley of PMSquare, a long time Cognos partner who offers his view of this year’s Gartner Magic Quadrant.

IBM Cognos Analytics Extension for IBM Cloud Pak for Data 3.5.3 was made available. See what's new.

Stay current with features and data servers that have been deprecated or removed from Cognos Analytics 11.1.x versions.

Stay current with our IBM Cognos Analytics for Mobile with our Frequently Asked Questions which resides in our live documentation.

Cloud Corner

IBM continues to expand our compliance posture for our SaaS offerings with the availability of Type 2 reports for both SOC1 and SOC2 for IBM Cognos Analytics on Cloud.

Stay current with which features are available in Cognos Analytics on Cloud or Cloud Pak for Data. The offering feature matrix has moved to our live IBM Knowledge Center.

Onboarding to Cognos Analytics on cloud: If you have just placed an order for your cloud offering or if you are evaluating the possibilities of moving to the cloud these common onboarding processes and steps should give you a good idea of what to expect and help you plan accordingly.

Events

Webinar: Join our Offering Management team live in our monthly “Ask me Anything” session, designed to answer your Cognos Analytics questions from product roadmap to upgrades. Apr 6

Workshop: LPA is hosting a Cognos Analytics Data Modules hands on workshop. Apr 9

Workshop (Europe): Join Motio and IBM Guest Speakers Denny Narezny and Torben Noer, in this hands-on-lab on Optimizing Cognos for Performance for the European timezone. Apr 22

Tech Corner

Cognos Analytics 11.1.x has multiple java processes. Have you ever wondered what they were for and how much memory is recommended as a default starting point? Read this article in the manual here.

This sample extension adds zoom support to any dashboard that is using an absolute layout. The extension will introduce various percent zoom settings as well as Page Width and Whole Page that can be used to force the dashboard to fit within your browser window.

This dashboard widget extension allows you to add buttons to your dashboards that will open a URL (website link) in a new browser tab.

If clicking on a tab in a multitab portal page results in a prompt “Do you want to open or save <report view name>”, this article may help to resolve it.

Did you know logging levels can be adjusted from your own workstation? This is in addition to the logging capabilities which exists on the Cognos server. This type of client-side logging is important for troubleshooting with support.

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On-Premises Corner

IBM Cognos Analytics for Mobile 11.1.7 FP2 is now available for download from Fix Central. You can review our installation as well as our prerequisites and considerations for installation documentation here. And download your Mobile clients:

Android
iOS

Would you like sample reports to easily see which users are running what and learn how to configure logging in Cognos Analytics? It could help with your capacity planning, performance monitoring or even identifying unused content.

Uncover the truth hidden in your data with the Cognos Analytics free trial. And if you want to get some hands-on experience with Planning Analytics, access the Planning Analytics free trial. These trials are 30-days and free with no download required.

Recommended Videos

Have you ever wondered how to create themes and extensions? Customization samples are available that demonstrate how to create themes, extensions, and views (perspectives). You can modify these samples.

This video demonstrates how to manage schedules, subscriptions and notifications in IBM Cognos Analytics.

Learn with this video how to configure Audit Reporting in Cognos Analytics.

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