Administration

The following administration features are new or changed in Cognos® Analytics 11.1.1.

Simplified creation of routing rules

When creating routing rules, you no longer need to navigate multiple tabs in Cognos Administration. You define routing rules and associate them with data objects, groups, roles, and server groups - all from the Routing rules page. This page is available from the Manage > Configuration pane.

For more information, see Dispatcher routing.

Configuring the system

You can make selected changes to your Cognos Analytics environment without re-starting the Cognos Analytics service. From Manage > Configuration > System, you can apply certain settings that were defined in Cognos Configuration, but do not require the service to be restarted.

For more information, see Configuring system settings.

Capabilities

A new Capabilities tab in the Manage > People pane allows you to grant capabilities to users, groups, and roles.

For more information, see Setting Access to Secured Functions or Features.

Contacts and distribution lists

Using the Contacts tab in the Manage > People pane, administrators can create and manage contacts, distribution lists, and folders. You can search, filter, and sort entries. You can also apply group and role permissions to contacts, distribution lists, and folders.

For more information, see Creating contacts, distribution lists, and folders.

New jobs

You can create jobs using a redesigned user interface. From the New job page, you add job steps, define the run order, and then set run options.

For more information, see Using jobs to schedule multiple entries.

Palettes

A new Palettes tab on the Manage > Customization pane allows you to create and modify custom palettes. You can duplicate palettes for further editing. You can also select a palette as the global palette that is available to all users.

For more information, see Creating a global color palette.

Profile

Using the Profile tab on the Manage > Customization pane, you can set the default profile for users and tenants. You can assign roles or groups to the default user. You can also specify the report format, turn on accessibility features, and specify regional options for the default profile.

For more information, see Managing User Profiles.

Collaboration

The new Manage > Collaboration pane allows a directory administrator to configure one or more Slack servers. Cognos Analytics users can then connect to the Slack servers to share messages and Cognos Analytics content.

For more information, see Integrating with a collaboration platform.

Faster queries on uploaded files and data sets

The query service has introduced a new co-process called Compute service, which increases the performance of queries on uploaded files and data sets. Queries on uploaded files and data sets are performed in whole or in part by the Compute service. Depending on the query, potentially the whole query can be evaluated by this service, and the result returned to the query service. In other cases, some additional local query processing of the result might be performed by the query service.

For more information, see Queries on uploaded files and data sets.