What's new and changed in Cognos Analytics
Cognos® Analytics updates can include new features, bug fixes, and security updates. Updates are listed in reverse chronological order so that the latest release is at the beginning of the topic.
You can see a list of the new features for the platform and all of the services at What's new in IBM® Cloud Pak for Data.
Installing or upgrading Cognos Analytics
- Related documentation:
Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.5.3
A new version of Cognos Analytics was released in October 2022 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.5.3.
Operand version: 22.3.0
This release includes the following changes:
- New features
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Version 22.3.0 of the Cognos Analytics service includes various fixes.
Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.5.2
A new version of Cognos Analytics was released in August 2022 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.5.2.
Operand version: 22.2.0
This release includes the following changes:
- New features
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The 22.2.0 release of Cognos Analytics includes the following features and updates:
- Removal of database drivers
- The following JDBC drivers are removed from Cognos Analytics on Cloud Pak for Data
4.5.2:
- Athena
- Impala
- Updated software version for Cognos Analytics
- This release provides software version 11.2.2 IF 1008 of Cognos Analytics.
Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.5.1
A new version of Cognos Analytics was released in July 2022 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.5.1.
Operand version: 22.1.0
This release includes the following changes:
- New features
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The 22.1.0 release of Cognos Analytics includes the following features and updates:
- Updated software version for Cognos Analytics
- This release provides software version 11.2.2 IF 1 of Cognos Analytics.
Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.5.0
A new version of Cognos Analytics was released in June 2022 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.5.0.
Operand version: 22.0.0
This release includes the following changes:
- New features
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The 22.0.0 release of Cognos Analytics includes the following features and updates:
- Optionally create service instances in tethered projects
- You can create one Cognos Analytics service instance
in the project where the Cloud Pak for Data control plane is
installed.
If you want to create multiple service instances, or if you want to isolate the service instance from other workloads that are associated with Cloud Pak for Data, you can create instances of Cognos Analytics in tethered projects. (You can deploy one instance in each tethered project.)
For details, see:
- New image management API
- Now you can use the image management API commands to manage images that are used in Cognos Analytics reports, dashboards, and so on. The image
management API also makes it easy to get information about all your image files and to upload
multiple images.
For more information, see Cognos Analytics artifacts and images APIs.
- Updated software version for Cognos Analytics
- This release provides software version 11.2.2 of Cognos Analytics.