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Ability to change the default location of saved report in Report Authoring

By default when creating a new report and you select a package. The report is saved inside the package. We want to change the default location globally, for example in my content or not inside the package but other location.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Read Only PAX

To ensure data entry to a planning model is only allowed through a TM1 Web Application allow a separate read only control so that when users are accessing the same cubes using PAX they can only view the data
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

db2pd -inst attemps to collect PureScale information in a non-PureScale environment

db2pd -inst attempts to collect - quiesceinfo and - iperiodic even though they are not appropriate options for the non-PureScale environment. It seems like db2pd should be smart enough to collect the information appropriate for the operating envir...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

PARAMETER_CACHE reinstate ability to overide the setting at the report level

Up until 10.2.2 it was possible to enable Parameter Caching at the server level - but disable for specific reports if there were issues with Parameter Caching for that specific report. With Cognos Analytics 11.X it is only possible to enable/disab...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Control Record Counts in Report Preview Mode

When building reports in preview mode, you cannot control the number of records returned. When a user develops a report against a large table (100K+) the time to see updates and the taxing of the database server can be extreme.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report all SQL calls in native stored procedures in Query Monitor

See case# TS003954339. Sometimes Query monitor doesn't capture the SQL statement but gives the message: CQM145I - SQL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE, instead. IBM case states that these are internal SQL calls in native stored procedures. In my case they were ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Recognize csv formatted file, even if the file extension is missing/wrong

CSV formatted files are central to inputting data into Cognos Dashboard Embedded. If a user creates or is provided with a file where the extension was left off, or different, Cognos Dashboard Embedded will not allow you to import it (e.g. consider...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 0 Not under consideration

Uploaded file with frameworkmanager package

Now, when you create an uploaded file and you want to combine it with a framework manager package, you have to create a datamodule. We want to have it directly, a framework manager package with uploaded file without a datamodule.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Allow more options on -MODIFY TRACE command

We sometimes get clobbered with processes that generate lots of Db2 accounting records to the point where SMF is overwhelmed in collecting/offloading them. We are able to identify the offending authid with our online monitor, but until we can cont...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

systemd template unit files for Cognos Analytics

Currently, Cognos Analytics does not support an automatic service start via systemd template unit files on RHEL7 and 8. systemd allows us to control boot time dependencies with more granularity so tht we can control situation like start Cognos Ana...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Not under consideration