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Put quick references to help menu

The quick references area takes up space, but it is present on the home screen and is not perinating. Even if the proxi company allows access to youtube, once we have done the tour we come back more. And the presence of this zonne annoys - my cus...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Support for ON UPDATE CASCADE

Use case: There is a table called release with a primary key id of type integer and an additional column name (the release name). And further tables (e.g. table_x, table_y, …) with a reference (foreign key) to release.id. The working tables are ta...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

Support for Avro Logical Data Types in File Connector Stage

Using Datastage 11.5.0.1 "File Connector Stage", We ask to implement the mapping from an input field defined as Decimal (17,2) to a target avro field defined as "type":["bytes","null"],"logicalType":"decimal","precision":"17","scale":"2" into the ...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Detect like-named objects and convert to non-part objects on current SSID

Object Profile contained some like-named objects that were added to the profile when they were Partitioned and now they are no longer Partitioned. This would require us to update the Object Profile for those objects and resubmit the job.
over 2 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Salesforce connector: support Loyalty Cloud module

A few months ago the need to access the Salesforce platform via SPSS emerged, in particular the Loyalty Cloud module, which was recently released on the market. Loyalty Cloud objects are available starting from version 51 of the APIs but, actually...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Better functionality in Company structure, Reorder

In Maintain > Company structure – Define, the Reorder-window, the drag-and-drop functionality is very time consuming, in larger groups. Please add the possibility to cut-and-paste row(s) as an alternative to drag-and-drop.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration

Search functionality in security groups

When changing/creating existing/new security groups for companies (Maintain > Rights > Security groups - Companies) there's no functionality for searching for a company/group company. All searching must be done manually which is very time co...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

request the nested fields will be available also in the Content Mining UI as well.

Our client are using the Box crawler in the Watson Discovery. This crawler is crawling data from the Box, however when analyzing documents in the Content Mining UI, it is unable to use facets which comes from metadata such as the author, folder na...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

User Groups, Folder visibility

Folder visibility Should work the same way as single user privileges. Now if you make a user group - everyone in the group can see all the folders and workbooks (though not the data itself). This makes view cluttered and users belonging to ANY gr...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Preserve joins with accessing multiple underlying DVMs in a single SQL statement

I have a SQL statement that joins 3 tables from 1 PEER DVM with a single table from a different PEER DVM. Currently DVM is breaking this statement into 4 separate SQL statements before sending them to Db2. A better approach, when possible would be...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Planned for future release