1. IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.12 (R12) Overview
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2. Cognos Analytics releases
Continuous delivery for on premise and on the Cloud
Contains defect fixes and enhancements
Installs on top, it preserves your settings and configuration
R7 – August 2017
New UI for Portal, Dashboard and Modules
Filter enhancements in dashboards and Reporting
Additional visualizations
New logging framework
R9 – December 2017
Lat/Long support in Dashboards
Support for PA subsets
IHS 9 Support
R11 – May 2018
Portal Page support
Custom Polygons
Dashboard Caching
R13, R14 …
R8 – November 2017
Default Run As
Ambiguous connections for dashboards and modules
Image library in reporting
Lat/Long support in Reports
Kiosk Mode in Storytelling
R10 – March 2018
Drill-through from dashboard to report
Dashboard export to PDF
OIDC Trusted Signon Provider
Jobs option moved
R12 – June 2018
Multi-lingual Dashboards
Reset Dashboards
Updates to interactive report permissions
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3. Release Highlights – R12 Multi-lingual dashboards Reset Dashboard
Now displayed within the glass
Reset Dashboard
Return to original state of your dashboard
Allow BI 10.x report permission option

4. 11.0.12 (R12) highlights - Dashboarding
Multi-lingual dashboards
Users can now translate user generated text into various languages which respects users content locale
Reset dashboards
Revert a dashboard to the last saved state

5. 11.0.12 (R12) highlights – Report Permissions
In Cognos 10.x a user only required Execute and Traverse permissions to run a report.  Read access was not required.  This allowed customers to take advantage of other features in the product to control access and visibility to reports and report views at a very fine level.  One of the techniques commonly used was to modify the System.xml file for the Cognos Connection portal to override the visibility settings.
With the interactive viewer in Cognos Analytics 11.0.x a user required Read access to the report spec in order to run the report or corresponding report view. This had the effect of limiting the ability to control visibility of reports.
As of R12, users no longer require Read access to the report spec in order to run in the interactive viewer.

6. Useful links Main Cognos Analytics page + Free Trial
Community:
Documentation
Upgrade Central
Request for Enhancements (RFE)

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