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Documentation for admin features

When modifying the features in the admin panel for different userids/groups, there is no way to understand what the effects are on all the areas of the different features. There are more than 1100 of them.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Fast-select-block to permit PART keyword in the end of the statement RFE 114773

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=114773 We want to HPU syntax to permit the PART keyword to be used in the end of the select sentence too. Use Case In our company, we use a procedure to unload objects and w...
over 6 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic Cubes relative time members in Dashboards

Would like the ability to use relative time members when creating dashboards, eg. current year, from Dynamic Cubes.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Copy a Tab from one Workbook to another Workbook

The function is required to copy a tab from one workbook to another workbook without recreating the Tab from scratch.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add Zero Suppression to Trace Cell function

Provide option to suppress zero rows in the trace calculation.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Inplace Reorg should be allowed on a table with an Expression Based Index

Expression Based Indexes (available since V10.5) are a great feature that can improve query performance without adding a new (generated) column and modifying existing code. But, you cannot do an Inplace Reorg on a table with an Expression Based In...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Removing defunct Delta Backup images after automatic database backup image removal

We have automated backup options enabled (num_db_backups and rec_his_retentn both set). Our backup schedule takes a full backup on Sunday and a Delta every other day of the week. When a full backup image qualifies for removal, with reference to th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Query Nodes - Allow Certain Members of a DB2 Group to Process Queries Against OLTP Data Without Interfering with OLTP

In a DB2 for z/OS data-sharing group, allow customers to designate certain DB2 members as "query-only" subsystems. A "query-only" subsystem, or "query node" would process queries for analytics and business intelligence against the same databases a...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

enable more secure algorithm when using ThirdParty CA

When using the customer's CA they want to have all certificate to be at least in sha256 but when using the following procedure we can only use sha1 https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.inst_cr_winux.do...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

setFocus Functionality

In previous versions of Cognos, we were able to use Javascript with the DOM form.document to set screen focus to the first input field. This is a Federal requirement for all aspects of our web site. In Cognos 11, there is no form and no way to set...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration