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prompt select and search option of search

I want to set the default option for search example "contains.." not "starts with.."
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Report Tool Function Bar

The new reporting tool should have some sort of option like the old Report Studio to have the different functions in a bar to be all the time. The clicking on a row or column to make them show is not working for our users. There are other places w...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Create Dashboard Filter using static, user defined values

In Dashboarding, we would like the ability to have a Filter that contains user defined, static values without having to create a Data Module. We would also like the ability to add logic to the filter selection.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Auto restart of CDC subscription upon a failure on Kafka target

The CDC kafka connector dies whenever a partition leadership changes for a topic. This is an ongoing function of Kafka and could happen during•Rolling broker restarts (to upgrade or update a config value)•A change of controller•Normal cluste...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Cognos URL parameters to specify user Content and Product Locales in Cognos Analytics 11

Previous versions of Cognos were able to to specify the Content and Product locales in a URL. Please provide the same functionality with Cognos Analytics 11 so a URL can be created to specify the Content and Product locale that will be displayed w...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

GDPR Support for Data Catalog

We need an additional metadata field for GDPR which includes the source country for the data. It would be valuable if this field could be automatically generated using the IP address of the source data (the country where the IP address is located)...
about 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Configurable Data Classification Meta Data Field

My clients have requested a data classification field for a data asset which has a configurable domain of values. For example, an administrator for a customer can define this field to have Public, Confidential, Highly Confidential and Restricted (...
about 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Query focus disappears in design mode

In Report Design select the query option. Click on a query and then click on a query item. At that point if you have 10 queries in the report you can't tell which query you are editing. See Attached.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Replication condiction

System : InfoSphere Replication Server(Q replication) is real-time database replication solution for better control of DB2 replication. Description : Customer want to check or before image and after image condition each row processing to control s...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

Enhanced User Management

Companies with multiple and/or large teams expect the user management capabilities of the services they use to support their organization structure. Kay capabilities expected from an enterprise solution: Users assigned roles - directly or via ass...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release