Administration

The following administration features are new or changed in Cognos® Analytics 11.1.2.

New capabilities

The administrator can assign new capabilities to selected users, allowing them to perform specialized tasks. Two new capabilities are available in 11.1.2:

  • The job capability allows a user to create jobs. For more information, see Job capability.
  • The notebook capability allows a user to create and edit Jupyter notebooks, which are integrated with Cognos Analytics. For more information, see Notebook capability.
Enabling Cognos Analytics for Jupyter Notebook

Administrators can configure IBM® Cognos Analytics to connect to a computer that is running IBM Cognos Analytics for Jupyter Notebook Server.

For more information, see Enabling IBM Cognos Analytics for Jupyter Notebook.

Support for new versions of Microsoft Analysis Services data servers

Cognos Analytics now supports the following versions of Microsoft Analysis Services data servers:

  • Microsoft Analysis Services (HTTP XMLA)

    Existing connections to a Microsoft Analysis Services 2017 server still work. Reports that were created against previous versions of the data server work after they are switched to use the new server.

  • Microsoft Analysis Services 2017 (ODBO)

    Existing connections that are moved to this server might lose signons. Reports that were created against previous versions of the data server still work after they are switched to use the new client and server. The client and server versions must match.

    Similar to other Microsoft Analysis Services MSOLAP versions, the Microsoft Analysis Services MSOLAP client must be installed to the same location as the report server. For this version of Microsoft Analysis Services, the MSOLAP version 14 client is required.

For more information, see Data servers.

Support for JWT authentication with SAP HANA data server connections

A connection to an SAP HANA data server that uses the SAP HANA JDBC driver can be configured to pass a JSON Web Token (JWT) when authenticating to the database.

To use this functionality with an SAP HANA data server connection, Cognos Analytics must be configured to use an OpenID Connect authentication provider. To provide the token, the connection settings must specify the OpenID Connect namespace that was configured as an identity provider. The identity provider namespace must be capable of returning claims in the JWT that SAP HANA requires.

When setting the SAP HANA data server connection, choose the Use an external namespace authentication method. For more information, see Creating a data server connection.

For information about configuring an OpenID authentication provider, see OpenID Connect authentication provider.