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.

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Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.6.5

A new version of Cognos Analytics was released in March 2023 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.6.5.

Operand version: 23.5.0

This release includes the following changes:

New features

The 23.5.0 release of Cognos Analytics includes the following features and updates:

Updated software version for Cognos Analytics
This release of the Cognos Analytics service provides Version 11.2.4 Fix Pack 1 of the Cognos Analytics software. For details, see Release 11.2.4 FP1 - New and changed features in the Cognos Analytics documentation.
Customer-reported issues fixed in this release
DT198774: Teradata Character Set fix of TS011158919 is failing upon Visualization in Analytic Project

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.6.4

A new version of Cognos Analytics was released in March 2023 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.6.4.

Operand version: 23.4.0

This release includes the following changes:

New features

The 23.4.0 release of Cognos Analytics includes the following features and updates:

Updated version of the Cognos Analytics software
This release of the Cognos Analytics service provides Version 11.2.4 IF 1003 of the Cognos Analytics software. For details, see Release 11.2.4 - New and changed features.
Security issues fixed in this release

This release includes fixes for the following security issue:

CVE-2022-37866

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.6.3

A new version of Cognos Analytics was released in February 2023 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.6.3.

Operand version: 23.3.0

This release includes the following changes:

New features

The 23.3.0 release of Cognos Analytics includes the following features and updates:

Upload JDBC drivers for Cognos Analytics
You can now upload JDBC drivers for the Cognos Analytics instance.

Cognos Analytics has specific JDBC driver versions that are tested and approved for use with Cognos Analytics instances. Uploading JDBC drivers for Cognos Analytics ensures that you use the correct version for Cognos Analytics rather than a version that works with Cloud Pak for Data but not necessarily with Cognos Analytics.

Use the Cognos Analytics drivers API to upload and manage the JDBC drivers for Cognos Analytics. For details, see JDBC drivers.

Updated software version for Cognos Analytics
This release of the Cognos Analytics service provides Version 11.2.4 of the Cognos Analytics software. For details about this version of the software, see Release 11.2.4 FP1 - New and changed features in the Cognos Analytics documentation.
Security issues fixed in this release

This release includes fixes for the following security issues:

CVE-2022-0391, CVE-2022-24758, CVE-2022-34339, CVE-2021-43138

CVE-2021-3711, CVE-2021-3712, CVE-2021-3733, CVE-2021-3737, CVE-2021-4160, CVE-2021-29425

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.6.1

A new version of Cognos Analytics was released in December 2022 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.6.1.

Operand version: 23.1.0

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.6.0

A new version of Cognos Analytics was released in November 2022 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.6.0.

Operand version: 23.0.0

This release includes the following changes:

New features

The 23.0.0 release of Cognos Analytics includes the following features and updates:

Change your plan size
You can now change the size of a Cognos Analytics service instance after you provision it. Previously, you could set the plan size only when you provisioned the service instance. Now, you can increase or decrease the size of the instance based on your workload. For details, see Changing the plan size of a Cognos Analytics service instance.
Updated software version for Cognos Analytics
This release of the service provides Version 11.2.3 of the Cognos Analytics software. For details, see Releases 11.2.3 - New and changed features.
Customer-reported issues fixed in this release
DT143079: Cognos Analytics dashboard-server returns HTTP 431 error due to large header value
Security issues fixed in this release

This release includes fixes for the following security issues:

CVE-2022-0391, CVE-2022-21803, CVE-2022-21824, CVE-2022-24758, CVE-2022-29078, CVE-2022-30614, CVE-2022-34339, CVE-2022-36773

CVE-2021-3711, CVE-2021-3712, CVE-2021-3733, CVE-2021-3737, CVE-2021-3749, CVE-2021-3807, CVE-2021-4160, CVE-2021-20468, CVE-2021-23438, CVE-2021-28918, CVE-2021-29418, CVE-2021-29425, CVE-2021-29823, CVE-2021-39009, CVE-2021-39045, CVE-2021-43138, CVE-2021-43797, CVE-2021-44531, CVE-2021-44532, CVE-2021-44533

CVE-2020-4301, CVE-2020-28469, CVE-2020-36518

XFID 217968, XFID 233967

The following security issues were addressed in previous releases of Cognos Analytics and are included in this release:

  • Cognos Analytics Version 11.2.2:

    CVE-2021-2369, CVE-2021-20190, CVE-2021-20464, CVE-2021-21290, CVE-2021-22883, CVE-2021-22884, CVE-2021-22918, CVE-2021-22921, CVE-2021-22930, CVE-2021-22931, CVE-2021-22939, CVE-2021-22940, CVE-2021-22959, CVE-2021-22960, CVE-2021-23337, CVE-2021-23343, CVE-2021-23840, CVE-2021-29768, CVE-2021-29824, CVE-2021-32797, CVE-2021-32798, CVE-2021-32808, CVE-2021-32809, CVE-2021-33829, CVE-2021-35517, CVE-2021-36090, CVE-2021-36373, CVE-2021-36374, CVE-2021-37136, CVE-2021-37137, CVE-2021-37714, CVE-2021-38886, CVE-2021-38903, CVE-2021-38904, CVE-2021-38905, CVE-2021-38945, CVE-2021-38946, CVE-2021-39047, CVE-2021-39239, CVE-2021-41164, CVE-2021-41165, CVE-2021-41182, CVE-2021-41183, CVE-2021-41184

    CVE-2020-8203, CVE-2020-8840, CVE-2020-9492, CVE-2020-9546, CVE-2020-9547, CVE-2020-9548, CVE-2020-10672, CVE-2020-10673, CVE-2020-10683, CVE-2020-10968, CVE-2020-10969, CVE-2020-11111, CVE-2020-11112, CVE-2020-11113, CVE-2020-11619, CVE-2020-11620, CVE-2020-14060, CVE-2020-14061, CVE-2020-14062, CVE-2020-14195, CVE-2020-24616, CVE-2020-24750, CVE-2020-25649, CVE-2020-28500, CVE-2020-35490, CVE-2020-35491, CVE-2020-35728, CVE-2020-36179, CVE-2020-36180, CVE-2020-36181, CVE-2020-36182, CVE-2020-36183, CVE-2020-36184, CVE-2020-36185, CVE-2020-36186, CVE-2020-36187, CVE-2020-36188, CVE-2020-36189

    CVE-2019-8331, CVE-2019-10744, CVE-2019-16942, CVE-2019-16943, CVE-2019-17531

    CVE-2018-1296, CVE-2018-8029, CVE-2018-11766, CVE-2018-14040, CVE-2018-14041, CVE-2018-14042, CVE-2018-1000632

    CVE-2017-3166, CVE-2017-15713, CVE-2017-15718, CVE-2017-18640

    CVE-2016-6811

    CVE-2012-4418, CVE-2012-5785

    CVE-2010-1632

  • Cognos Analytics Version 11.2.1 IF 3:

    CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-44832, CVE-2021-45046, CVE-2021-45105

  • Cognos Analytics Version 11.2.1:

    CVE-2021-3177, CVE-2021-20470, CVE-2021-20493, CVE-2021-23840, CVE-2021-27807, CVE-2021-27906, CVE-2021-29679, CVE-2021-29716, CVE-2021-29719, CVE-2021-29745, CVE-2021-29756, CVE-2021-29867, CVE-2021-31811, CVE-2021-31812, CVE-2021-38909

    CVE-2020-1945, CVE-2020-4951, CVE-2020-8315, CVE-2020-8492, CVE-2020-9281, CVE-2020-9440, CVE-2020-11022, CVE-2020-11023, CVE-2020-13933, CVE-2020-14779, CVE-2020-14781, CVE-2020-14782, CVE-2020-14803, CVE-2020-26116, CVE-2020-26215, CVE-2020-27221, CVE-2020-27619

    CVE-2019-8331, CVE-2019-11358, CVE-2019-12415, CVE-2019-16869, CVE-2019-20444, CVE-2019-20445

    CVE-2018-10140, CVE-2018-10141, CVE-2018-10142, CVE-2018-17960

    CVE-2017-12620

    CVE-2015-2156

    CVE-2014-0193, CVE-2014-3004, CVE-2014-3488

    XFID 180875