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Excel Data Tables in Cognos Reports

In order to improve accessibility in Cognos Analytics, allow for the creation of Excel Data Tables using Report Studio when choosing Excel output formats. These would be tables that appear specifically as "Data Tables" in Excel. This would allow f...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow all access paths in a cursor with FOR UPDATE

Due to the haloween-problem, some access paths are blocked for cursors with the FOR UPDATE-clause. Also for multi-row-fetch and FOR UPDATE there are restrictions if there is a IN-subquery
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Make REGEXP SQL functions available in Db2 for z/OS without IDAA

We recently had a developer who wanted to use a REGEXP_LIKE clause in SQL for an application. He was told that this functionality was available in Db2 12 for z/OS. However, on further investigation, the functionality requires IDAA. We assume that ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Make ROWSET cursors available on the Db2 Server and Client.

assistance with multirow fetch A single FETCH statement can be used to fetch several rows with the Db2 Precompiler and embedded Runtime. Arrays can be given as host variables (and as their indicators) in Db2 ESQL, and when ESQL executes the FETCH ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Auditpolicy OBJMAINT to audit activities for objects created after trace has been started

Please enhance auditpolicy OBJMAINT to audit objects too, which were created after trace start.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Auditpolicy OBJMAINT to audit 'create / alter / drop' for views

Please add view-support for Auditpolicy OBJMAINT, which is missing as of today.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Naming Excel report name based on Prompt

We currently can name excel tabs based on selection but we want to see if we can replicate that with actual file name. So let's say Run the excel Cognos report call "Shoes" and comes open Prompt page with selections "Men" and "Women". If I select ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Select Alias from dimension short cut menu on views

It would be great to be able to change the Alias for a dimension hierarchy from the shortcut menu of the dimensions selector, similar to the way we can change the hierarchy. Currently we have to open the Set Editor to change the Alias or select th...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Cube : In Memory Aggregation for Measures with Timestate Rollup

In Banking Sector(Credit Risk Data), most of the measures are setups with time state rollup as last period. But Dynamic Cube Analyzer fails for any measure that is set with time state rollup when I run aggregate advisor. It fails saying that those...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Delay the insert into PLAN_TABLE, if EXPLAIN MODE is YES

We want to use SET CURRENT EXPLAIN MODE = YES in long running jobs like DSNTIAUL or DSNTEP2 to get more information, what was going on. If these jobs only ran select-statements a long running UOR is generated, because the insert of the access path...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration