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Request for Improved Orthographic Variation Handling in Japanese through Morphological Analysis in Watson Discovery

When using Watson Discovery for Japanese natural language searches, we are experiencing issues due to variations in okurigana (Japanese verb endings) and spelling differences, which prevent certain search results from appearing as expected. For ex...
12 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Ability to add columns to DB2 z/OS tables without impacting IDAA or incremental update

Currently, adding a column to a DB2 z/OS table that is using IDAA with incremental update involves: 1) Adding the column in DB2 z/OS2) Stopping replication for all IDAA tables3) Dropping the affected table from IDAA4) Adding the affected table bac...
over 12 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

New capabilities for CSV and PDF export

As we want to make sure we follow security standards for our Cognos platform in Production environment (no PDF/CSV/XLS outputs allowed), we currently managed to remove PDF/CSV/XLS report export capability for our customers in Production - CA versi...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Add the Rule based mapping support for DB2 range partitioned tables.

Customers are using CDC 11.4 to replicate tables between DB2 11.5 LUW. When altering column definition on these replication tables, they hope to minimize replication downtime between source and target DB. However, CDC only supports DDL replication...
12 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Is a defect

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 ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Workflows: Include support for mathematical operations/transformations in Expressions

It'd be a great addition if we can evaluate mathematical expressions as conditions or operations in Native Workflow. Sample use cases: 1. Operate on a field, making it 1.2 times its original value. 2. Operate on another field, e.g., adjust the val...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Delivered

in CM- Manage Changes display change i miss coloum 'create date'

CM - Manage Changes 1 - Display changes I mis a column with create date Is that possible ? Sel ID Owner Name Type Status I Comment * * * * * * * --- -------- -------- --------------------------- -------- -------- - --------> 67 BE6002LD Z306034...
12 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

allow SELECT with LISTAGG function to always allow ORDER BY

I am using DB2 Version 12. function level 501 I have a simple SQL example I show my co-workers to show the power of new DB2 SQL function of LISTAGG SELECT IXCREATOR, IXNAME ,LISTAGG(ALL COLNAME,',') WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY COLSEQ) AS ALL_COLS ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Delivered

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...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add the option for a columns with changed values column to the Change Capture stage

Currently the Change Capture stage will give you the information (in the Column change_code) if your After Data is a Copy (0), Insert (1), Delete (2) or Edit (3), it would be good to have the option to generate an addition column change_columns (V...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted