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+/- buttons for column grouping

The ability to group columns in Cognos would be a great feature which is a small thing but a missing element compared to MS Reporting services reporting. https://oxen.tech/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/grouping.gif In fact the (+)/(-) buttons used wi...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Create a window/alert confirmation when lock any object

The function to lock any object does not alert or warn user that it wil lock the object, so some user clicks to lock an object by mistakeand does not know that he has lock an object So, we ask to develop a window or a alert to confirm if user real...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Impossibility to close the previously opened session in the Administrative Console

The client claims that if they go outside the Administrative console without logout, to log in again, they have to wait for the logout timeout because the system does not allow them to close the previous session.
about 1 month ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Under review

Hide Aggregation Type On Charts

Hi Team, On the cognos dashboard 11.2.4 version, there is a scenario where it is necessary to hide the aggregate type of fields on the charts, which appear as tooltips when you hover over the charts in brackets. The additional data from aggregatio...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

filter specific IDAA messages from being delivered to DB2.

All IDAA messages, once delivered to DB2, are wrapped in a DSNX881I message ID and displayed within DB2 and on the z/OS logs. In our case there was a VERY lengthy message of type /W3005/ which is delivered to us no less than 15 times a day for eac...
8 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Allow a join of a temporal table with an archive-enabled table.

Allowing us to join a temporal table with an archive-enabled table would allow us to take advantage of both features. As is we will have to choose one or the other.
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Allow free text field to be search in Grid other than SystemDescription

Allow free text field to be search in Grid other than SystemDescription
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Include CTQ reason / details in db2exfmt advanced diagnostics

We need an "Extended Diagnostic Information" in Explain (db2exfmt) that details if and why the column organized tables had been (early) converted to the row format for processing it in the row engine. This is important to detect performance issues...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 3 Not under consideration

Need a solution for Outgoing IP address from OpenShift Cluster Node

Per our PMR Case number TS016159590 We are installing the containerized version of Connect Direct in our OpenShift environment. When we set up the NETMAP on any remote server, we use the IP address of the OpenShift node just as we always have done...
22 days ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Submitted

Add an email notification when the extracts are uploaded to S3

Currently, the users are not getting notified when the extracts are completed and uploaed to S3. Please add an email notification feature when the extract file is successfully uploaded on to the configured S3 Bucket/Path.
22 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted