What's new and changed in Cognos Analytics
The Cognos® Analytics release and subsequent refreshes can include new features, bug fixes, and security updates. Refreshes appear in reverse chronological order, and only the refreshes that contain updates for Cognos Analytics are shown.
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
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- Related documentation:
Refresh 15 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 3.5
A new version of Cognos Analytics was released in July 2022.
Assembly version: 3.5.10
This release includes the following change:
- New feature
- This release provides software version 11.1.7 Fix Pak 5 of Cognos Analytics.
Refresh 13 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 3.5
A new version of Cognos Analytics was released in April 2022.
Assembly version: 3.5.9
Refresh 12 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 3.5
A new version of Cognos Analytics was released in March 2022.
Assembly version: 3.5.8
This release includes the following change:
- New feature
- This release provides software version 11.1.7 Fix Pak 4 IF 1062 of Cognos Analytics.
Refresh 11 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 3.5
A new version of Cognos Analytics was released in February 2022.
Assembly version: 3.5.7
Refresh 10 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 3.5
A new version of Cognos Analytics was released in January 2022.
Assembly version: 3.5.6
This release includes the following change:
- New feature
- This release provides software version 11.1.7 Fix Pak 4 IF 8 of Cognos Analytics.
Refresh 2 of Cloud Pak for Data Version 3.5
A new version of Cognos Analytics was released in January 2021.
Assembly version: 3.5.2
This release includes the following changes:
- New features
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You must install Version 3.5.2 of the Cognos Analytics service if you want to install the service on Red Hat® OpenShift® 4.6.
This release provides software version 11.1.7 Fix Pak 2 of Cognos Analytics.
- Bug fixes
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This release includes the following fix:
- Issue: CSV based reports cannot be rerun after a Cloud Pak for Data restart.
Resolution: CSV based reports can now be rerun after a Cloud Pak for Data restart.
- Issue: CSV based reports cannot be rerun after a Cloud Pak for Data restart.
Initial release of Cloud Pak for Data Version 3.5
A new version of Cognos Analytics was released as part of Cloud Pak for Data Version 3.5.
Assembly version: 3.5.1
This release includes the following changes:
- New features
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- Support for additional databases
- Cognos Analytics now supports connections to the
following additional databases:
- Amazon Athena
- Apache Hive
- Cloudera Impala
- Informix®
- MariaDB
- MongoDB
- Netezza®
- Snowflake
- Support for SSL data sources
- You can copy SSL certificates to support SSL data sources.
For details, see Copying SSL certificates, deployments, and JDBC drivers.
- Upgrade using the instance upgrade from version 3.2.2
- If you are starting with Cognos Analytics on
Cloud Pak for Data Version 3.2.2, you can use the
instance upgrade from version 3.2.2 to upgrade to version 3.5.
For details, see Upgrading Cognos Analytics.