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When Cognos Analytics queries Snowflake (Database Vendor: https://snowflake.com), the data returned when a TIME datatype is used in the query should be exactly the same as the data stored at rest within a given table on Snowflake, without any conversion based on the difference in hours between UTC and how time is configured on the Operating System where the dispatcher is installed.

This would benefit any IBM Cognos customer who is using Snowflake as a data source and expecting data to not be modified in flight regardless of where the Cognos dispatchers are located in the World's 24 regional time zones.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Set object status to prohibit data access

Before we drop a Db2 table we need to make sure that noone use the object in any way. We solve this now by stopping the tablespace and keeping it stopped for about six months. This means that noone can access the data and noone can run a utility a...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Have new authority for REFRESH of MQT that does not require high privilege levels

We historically have an application batch userid that has DBADM authority. We are limiting all access to this ID to the minimally required authority it requires such as load, imagecopy and runstats at the DB level. When we started converting our t...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to localize drilled through view

We crated a PAW book that can drill through to another view getting a records from ODBC DB using MDX like: "select aaa, bbb from table". On that view, we'd like to use localize caption so that caption can be changed depending on the language confi...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Need Fallback Feature

Fallback function is not available in DOE. For a simple use case where User adds a Column to the table for testing purpose and post testing would like to revert/fallback, the fallback feature is not available in DOE. It will be a good feature &...
over 3 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve design to reduce xacclock table size but retain the comp locking information

database table size has grown because of company locking records. However, it is not good idea to purge the table information just because multi period locking is in place. When company wish to unlock a period, the company locking should remain in...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Delivered

Allow writing from the platform through a Hive connector

As we develop models on the cloud pak platform, we re implementing the following flow: - reading data tables on our on-premise datalake from a hive connector - training a ML model from a notebook environment - writing the output of models back to ...
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

More efficient way of freeing or deleting a bind copy for trigger packages.

We would like a way to free or delete bind copy for trigger packages. You can delete/free rows from the bindcopy tables for triggers. For packages you use the FREE PACKAGE command with the PLANMGMT (INACTIVE) parm Ex. FREE PACKAGE - (AM.AMPILN.(AM...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add Block Indexes to informix

Add Block Indexes to informix similar to DB2 MDC Tables and Postgres BRIN Indexes.
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Extend REST API with GET Specification of Framework Model (XML)

To get the Definitions of the SQL / Tables etc. behind a report we will need to read the XML Definition of the Package used in the report. We already get any information (name, description, xml specification) about the report with the new REST API...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration