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Set a custom palette in Cognos 11.1.1 as default for the whole dashboarding environment

Dear IBM, We would like to have the posibility to set a custom Palette which is saved under "Global" as default for the whole dashboarding environment.This is to maintain our corporate identity. Regards, Matthijs, ING Netherlands
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

IF function - Account mappings Controller Web

Cognos Classic includes a feature that maps an account code from an imported to a TB code based on whether it is a Dr or Cr. This is executed through an IF function which directs the balances to the correct Cognos code based on the imported value....
6 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Idenitfy code with duplicate functionality

A few customers I have talked to have asked how WCA4Z can identify duplicate code for them as part of the understand and refactor phases. Customers tend to have duplicate code across their applications that can be consolidated into reusable servic...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

Improve performance in queries with IN predicate

Hello! We had problems with CPU in Production environment several months ago with a simple query with IN predicate. The CPU reached 100%! Particularly, this query has many literals within IN predicate and the IN predicate can't be matching. After ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

About the use of Azure storage service from Modeler Client

I was able to browse the text file on OneDrive(*1) over networkdrive from SPSS Modeler Client. Please state in the release notes that file browsing using the WEBDAV(*2) is supported. (*1)Storage service provided by Microsoft (*2)Web-based Distr...
about 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Planned for future release

CP4D - Restrict multiple users simultaneously opening the same flow to make changes

Customer is using 4.8.1 version of CP4D and actively using DataStage and WS pipelines. Below scenario is for both DataStage flows and Watson Pipelines as well. Currently multiple users can simultaneously open the same flow and make changes without...
2 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Dashboard: How to set the column width of the table freely.

The width of columns cannot be set freely in the table for dashboard. If that is possible, valuable space can be effectively utilized.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Planned for future release

OFFSET node and OLAP node

@OFFSET is useful to create feature variables such as - the ratio or difference between the data and the data before and after - ranking or CUMSUM But There are issues. - Not support SQL pushback - Difficult concept for grouping I request for two ...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Sorting of Month Name in Cognos Analytics Dashboard

In Dashboards of Cognos Analytics when Month Data Item is used with any visualization by default it is sorted in ascending(Alphabetic order) such as (Apr, Aug, Dec, Feb….Sep) but this is incorrect
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Improve INDOUBT thread processing in two-phase commit scenario

Recently we had a pretty severe production outage on an 8-way data sharing group. After resolution of the root cause, WAS and Db2 z were quite slow in recovery. Following the crash, there were dozens of indoubt threads and lots of retained locks a...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release