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over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Contract with VA to use thier 9 million active (as well as former) member medical history in regards to data on prostate cancer. There have been very limited studies on prostate as to cancer cause and follow up. Mainly because disease is for 50 and up (60 mostly). Those that get cured drift away. Others die off. There are only 3 stnd methods of treatment all poor. There is zero concensus after a 100 years. Some believe its low testosterone as one ages. Others believe its testosterone itself that cause prostate cancer. Others believe its DHT converted testosterone. Others believe its first a low testosterone and then the testosterone is increased. The VA give blood tests called labs regularly to all 9 million members several times a year. They should include as standard labs for PSA marker, testosterone, DHT, estrogene and lutinizing. Shortly if not already available Watson could generate data on 9 million plus millions that have passed on to determine which of the named hormones/issues contribute directly to diagnosed prostate cancer. In my case, had a pituitary benigh tumor where testosterone dropped to nothing. After removal, testosterone back in normal range. Then PSA shot up dramatically, then leveled off. Then pituitary had issues again with testosterone low. Took prescribed testosterone. Then/since PSA keeps increasing dramatically. Biopsy indicated cancer. I have 5 years of labs for PSA, testosterone, DHT. I think its pathetic now that there is cloud computing and easy mgnt of data that using the VA a perfect captive market analysizing data each of these markers/hormones. VA captures weight every visit and other particulars. Those using the VA do not fade away once cured or even with slow growth cancer so data is massive as nearly all VA patients are older than 50. Donate this effort for humanitarian and get tax write off. Related idea for health. Set up a self serve as well as comprehensive data base for all diseases. Most doctors are not nearly up to date in the myriad of data or studies on all the diseases in their field. Develop 2 apps. One for patients, Show image of front/back and sides. Let them click on part of body they have pain/problem with. Then have Watson (after web crawling world data base of all diseases) display all the symptons for this disease. Let patient check off those they think they have. Next, let them list all other existing issues just like every stupid form you have to fill out over and over and over again at every doctor, dentist etc.Then IBM could sell this app to medical health companies to funnel traffic to them. Same type of version could be used for a doctor during/after a visit. Dr could enter by voice/transcribe what patient said. Watson could come back after reviewing all the diseases in the world against the listed symptoms and make determination of what disease(s) it is and recommend testing/treatment and most recents trials/studies. I dont want some doc trying to keep up with all the health/medical information being developed. Actually, most first line doctors could be eliminated or at least first vists be more productive. Medical health could reach around the world just like mobile phone. This will make people take ownership of their health- dis/ease. This is what is recommened before you visit doctor anyway. List all symptoms, pain, questions and related to be discussed at first meeting. Dont sit their like a log and have him guess which of the 100s of thousands of diseases you have. I was the one reading my labs with the PSA going up over the years not any of the doctors assigned to me. I

I gave all that info in the idea above. Cull the VA for prostate cancer data via the blood labs on 9 million vets that use the VA health care service until they die so that trials and studies can be continuous and on going. Benefit is pro bono tax...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Global Hold for Cubes

A global hold cube would be very useful since currently holds are on a per user basis meaning any processes which involve spreading where holding is necessary (e.g. holding Actual periods) cannot be scheduled
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Framework Manager option to Kill database requested in case of failed

Our team use IBM Cognos Framework Manager product to design and publish packages use on Cognos Report Studio mainly but in some cases the queries created failed with error: "A socket reported a communication error".The previous error was identifie...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Subscriptions are removed from being persistent when a target data channel comms. error is received.

== Customer is running Classic to IIDR/CDC SQL. Target SQL failed due to comms. issue in the data channel which was was considered non recoverable and dropped the sub. from being persistent. Would like the sub. to be restarted in this case.
over 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Change status does not allow lock/unlock of a submission for multiple periods

Change status does not allow lock/unlock of multiple submissions. The only option is to lock the full actuality and period.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Add control in Controller around adding forms to a form set

It is currently possible to assign a form to a form set without any control. In some cases that form may get associated with two submissions that are assigned to one actuality and Period.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Oracle 18c support in DataStage v11.5

There seems to no support for connecting to Oracle 18c Database from DataStage 11.5 or 11.7
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Support for accessing deployment directory in start/stop script

This is for Windows and Linux platforms. Please contact Anthony Frery and Scott Campbell for Windows support. We are using the ASC part of the conductor, in our application, we deploy application package, and the package contains necessary files n...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.2.1 1 Not under consideration

PSUSP jobs need JOB_CONTROLS

Users need notifications when jobs are PSUSP due to pre-exec failures, and JOB_CONTROLS do not work because the job isn't RUN when it is suspended. We also need a tunable parameter to have these jobs killed after some amount of time.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration