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Make PDF documentation available that describes the Cognos extended SQL functions

It is common practice by Cognos report authors and administrators to use the "Generate SQL" feature to view the SQL that executed during a report run. This may be done either for performance improvement or troubleshooting reasons. When the SQL con...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Modeler code conversion

It seems that Modeler converts characters as explained in the attached file. Therefore, Japanese has a problem with the Unicode converter. Some Japanese characters are garbled when converting from Shift-JIS to Unicode and when converting from Unic...
about 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Functionality already exists

Work load manager- time wasting while waiting for a job to start

Hello We did a migration from datastage version 7.5 to version 11.5. while deliver all jobs to production we realize that the performance in the new version are very poor compare to the old version. after investigation we realized that it bec...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

License Scheduler licence allocation when jobs need multiple licences

LS assigns licences to the licence project with the lowest accumulated usage, however if the job queuing needs more than the number of licences available they won't be reassigned to another licence project with a job queuing that can use them.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Allow Filters to appear above Tabs on tabbed reports

On tabbed reports with in page filters, the filters appear below the tabs making it look weird. Would like the filters to appear above the tab. Would
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Effective Rename Entity and Relations for Annotations

At the moment, when we rename the name/label of the Entity and Relation under "ASSET" column, it doesn't change existing annotations, which are still associated with the previous labels. This is problematic when we need the label to be change...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Row version of math functions

Math functions in Cognos works on individual field in a column fashion. I need to use math function on a row instead. The particular functions that I'm using are aggregate and maximum but all math functions could be used in this manner. Especially...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos BI to operate and co-exist with ipstatus conntrack "stateful "firewall" with "default" configuration settings

New Functionality requested with Cognos:When Oracle maintenance is required to be carried out there will always be a Cognos CS instance available. We're seeking for Cognos BI to operate in such a manner to ensure that it ipstatus conntrack table o...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable of option to consol as per method 1 and method 2

Disable method 1 and method 2 for consolidation and want to give only method “according to company structure definition”.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Informix support for Oracle Linux (RHCK)

Request Informix IDS v11 FC9 support for Oracle Linux (Red Hat Compatible Kernel) version 6.5 X86-64 bit.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration