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Scheduling of Import from Flat Files for Daily, Weekly & Monthly

Current settings only allow "Import from Flat Files" to be scheduled for "Execute immediately" or "One Time Only". However, as month end closing are done monthly, There is a need to have the import scheduled Monthly at least. Workaround now is to ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Client side rendering of interactive reporting

Client side rendering of interactive reporting will enhance the user experience a lot. It will also reduce the load on the Cognos servers 1. Faster sorting (and other operations) where no new data retrievals are needed and the output is only sorte...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support for UDFs in watsonx.data Presto

The open-source version of Presto supports user-defined functions (UDFs), but the watsonx.data implementation of Presto does not. UDFs are essential for deploying watsonx.data in real-world settings because they enable organizations to extend SQL'...
6 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Planned for future release

Ability to reuse/reference report elements in Dashboards

We need an ability to either reuse (copy&paste) or reference (like in Workspace) elements from Reports in Dashboards. Optimally we have the choice which way we want to use for the specific use case. Copy&paste contents from a Report to a D...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Planned for future release

Offset for entity framework

I’m currently using Entity Framework to fetch data from DB2. Due to limitations in how paging works, I’ve had to enable UseRowNumberForPaging in the connection string, otherwise the Skip() functionality doesn’t generate valid SQL for DB2. Without ...
7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Planned for future release

improve documentation about CONDBAT (& MDBAT) and how to watch the limit being approached

The IBM provided documentation for important ZPARM of CONDBAT and MDBAT is a bit vague on exactly what to watch for these important limits. The documentation could be improved. I reviewed the documentation for DISPLAY DDF command https://www.ibm.c...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

In Match 360 there should be an easier way to remove attributes from published model

In current version of Match 360 as soon as data model is published, there is no way to remove a single attribute even if no data is mapped to it and it is not used in matching. The only way to solve it is to run unpublished reset model APIs which ...
over 2 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Planned for future release

Drill Through with a single click on datapoint in charts/visualizations in full interactive report mode

Currently if a drill through target is definied on a chart/visualization in a report which has full interactive mode ON, user always has to select the datapoint, go to toolbar/analyze/drill through targets and select a drill through target there e...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Add Bufferpool ID # to SMF 100/2 DNSDQDBP

Hello z/OS DB2, I am processing the SMF 100 subtype 1 and subtype 2 records and match upthe buffer pool data. In the SMF 100/1 DSNDQBST section, the buffer pools are identified by a buffer pool ID number. On the SMF 100/2 records, DNSDQDBP section...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Planned for future release

istool import asset values -cao option to be available in IGC UI

1. Product: IGC2. Associated PMR: TS0014637973. Describe the requirement: Would like istool import asset values -cao option to be available in IGC UI4. Use Case: APAR JR60264 addresses performance issue with custom attribute only updates in asset ...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Planned for future release