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[Copy] DISABLE DEFAULT REPORT AUTHORING TEMPLATES

We use Cognos in such a way that we need to restrict users from creating Active Reports. When you create a New Report, the first screen that displays prompts you to choose a template: Blank report or blank active report. There is no way to disable...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Missing parameters for job starts via the Operations Console

Job starts via the Operations Console behave differently than via the DataStage Director Client. While all parameters for a parameter set are displayed and can be changed in the Director, this is unfortunately not the case in the Operations Consol...
about 4 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Display Services Tier operating system resources in Ops Console

In an environment where ISD jobs are exposed and IGC is also used it would be useful to be able to view the resources for the services tier.
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Increase the default height of the description field to 10-15 lines

The description field is an attribute from reports, folders, ... which is displayed in the properties of the object in the Cognos portal. It has a relatively small height and only 2.5 lines can be shown at once. The field height cannot be increase...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Functionality already exists

Display notification messages in a different area of the UI so they do not cover buttons

In fix pack 3 when an item is created or moved to a different step in the workflow a message will appear in the top right of the UI but it either fully or partially covers the 'Take Action' button which means a user has to take the extra step to c...
about 4 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Allow for the creation of UDTF without the cross memory constraint to Db2

Currently when I attempt to create a UDTF, I must have a Db2 subsystem defined to DVM that is running on the same LPAR and it cannot be a data-sharing Db2 behind a DVIPA. Step one would be to eliminate the need for a Db2 subsystem to be selected i...
about 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add navigation buttons(First, Last, Next, Previous) and page number box for the multi occurrence grouping attribute in Persona UI

In the Persona UI, assume that grouping attribute has more than 500 occurence. And, In the setting we set the maximum display count to 20. If the business user needs to edit 499th occurence, then the user needs to click add icon for more than 20 t...
over 4 years ago in Product Master 1 Delivered

Provide DISPLAY command option to generate XML

The various DISPLAY commands in DB2 return a lot of useful data. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to store the output in a DB2 table. If every DISPLAY command came with an option that returned the output in loadable XML format, we could store t...
almost 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Elements with just one hidden parent show up as Orphans( trashing UI selection)

Elements that roll up into Hierarchies that the users have no access are being displayed as orphans and (even though they are not) This seem to be due to the fact that some parents of the elements are hidden via security and other parents are not....
over 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the message "table XXXX not found" during running load Utility.

We actually want DB2 load utilities to display consistent error messages that are easy to find. It should definitely be an ‘E’rror, not a ‘W’arning or ‘I’nformational message’, but it should also contains something like ‘UNSCCESSFUL’, or ‘ERROR’, ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Planned for future release