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ENH: Provide an option to rerun with blank (cached value) for date prompt

User can delete the default value (today) from date prompt (type:editbox) and run the report with blank param value. However when rerunning the report previously entered parameter value (blank) itself is not cached and back to default (today) agai...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace Advanced Profile Parameter Support

We need to be able to pass a profile to Workspace Advanced through a parameter on the URL query string. This would select the correct profile for a user with multiple profiles without prompting the user to choose.
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New DB2OPT Parameter

Would like a DB2OPT parameter to specify/override the SECURITY attribute for API's like GET_CONFIG. Currently, it is defaulting to DEFINER in the DSNTIJRT job. We are having to ALTER it after-the-fact from DEFINER to USER.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Redirect Restore + RF with a user defined MIRRORLOGPATH in the backup image succeeds(RIMS)

Headline cont... nevertheless target MIRRORLOGPATH does not exist. Description-Redirect Restore + RF with a user defined MIRRORLOGPATH in the backup image succeeds nevertheless target MIRRORLOGPATH does not exist. DB2 does not throw an error at Re...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Extract "undefined text"from input.text

Provide function to extract the part of text in input.text, which is not either a defined intent or entity. Use case is to use this as parameter for as website search, which is called using a webhook.
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

PAW Spreadsheet Objects

It would be useful to have simplified speadsheets in PAW, with grid references, so columns and rows. This would allow users to drag a Spreadsheet object onto a Sheet, like they can with views etc. The spreadsheet should support tm1 formulas and ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Include the Parameter Long Name in the "Parameters" tab of a Job Step

In IBM SPSS Modeler, the user can define stream parameters that can be used in the nodes in various ways. This is extremely useful when creating streams that serve as 'templates' for different, but similar, purposes.Each parameter has a name, whic...
almost 11 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Unexpected data truncation occurs in external JAVA stored procedures using VARCHAR type parameters

Unexpected data truncation occurs in external JAVA stored procedures using VARCHAR type parameters; whenever they contain any hex '00' character somewhere in the string data. If a JAVA stored procedure updates a variable such as x'C100C2', the pro...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Custom-SQL MITI Bridges should report which scripts fail

When importing metadata with OpenIGC Custom-SQL bridges, like the PL/SQL and BTEQ ones, a directory with many scripts is specified in the parameters. If one script from that directory fails, no warning message is shown in the output, we just get "...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server .Net Provider Support For Informix Types TEXT, BYTE and BOOLEAN

We are in the process of moving from .Net Framework to .Net Core. We currently use the Informix Client SDK ADO.Net drivers to access Informix databases using ADO.Net. When we tried to migrate to the IBM Data Server Driver (IBM.Data.DB2.dll) we fou...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration