Release 11.0.11 - May 2018

General

Support for legacy portal pages

Cognos Business Intelligence 10.x users who migrate to Cognos Analytics 11 can continue to use portal pages that they created in Cognos BI.

For more information, see the IBM Cognos Analytics blog.

Custom polygons in reports and dashboards

IBM® Cognos Analytics supports the use of custom polygons in partnership with Mapbox. When you use a map in a dashboard, you can use custom point or region information from Mapbox in a map. You can use an extra layer on a map to display additional information. For example, a time-zone layer. Upload your geoJSON custom polygon file to Mapbox as a tileset. To use the vector maps from Mapbox as location measures in your map visualization, use a data source that contains region or point data.

For more information, see the following topics:

• Setting up Mapbox to work with IBM Cognos Analytics
• Using custom point or region information from Mapbox in a map vizualization in a dashboard
• Using custom point or region information from Mapbox in a map visualization in a report

Improved process of handling ambiguous connections

An ambiguous connection message is displayed when the query engine attempts to establish a connection to a data source (data server) which has multiple connections that could be used. For example, the ambiguous connection message is displayed when a data source has two or more connections, and none of the connections is disabled, and the user has permissions to use all connections.

Starting with this release, the process of handling ambiguous connections was improved for IBM Cognos Analytics applications that run with both the dynamic and compatible query modes. The models that are used by the applications in both modes are expected to refer to the same data source connection names in the content store. In previous releases, when a separate JDBC connection, to use with the dynamic query mode, was added to an existing connection, the ambiguous connection message was displayed.

With the improved process, ambiguous connections are handled in the following way:

• If a package is configured to use the dynamic query mode, any non-JDBC data source connections are ignored.
• If a package is configured to use the compatible query mode, any JDBC data source connections are ignored.
• If a data source has only one connection, this connection is used.
• If a data source has two or more available connections, the ambiguous connection message is displayed.

Dashboards and stories

Data cache property

Enable data caching to improve the performance of your dashboard or story. This is especially useful when multiple users access the same saved dashboard or story at the same time.

For more information, see Enabling data caching.

What's new video

Here's a short video that highlights the new features for this release: video (https://youtu.be/fqQDfoly-a4).