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Default setting for Use Set Aggregate

By default when create Totals in the cross-tab, the value of the Use Set Aggregate property is set to true. Need to have an ability to set default value to false.
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH : Definable and Reusable subsets (public + private) in BI Reports

Today there is the possibility to define public subsets in BI Reports (Shared sets in 10.2.1) but we would like a more flexible functionality: private as well as public subsets //// BI subsets as well as subsets based on package elements (dimensio...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH Provide method to create Weighted Dimension in Dynamic Cube Designer

Client would like to have a means to create a Weighted Dimension in Dynamic Cubes. The requirement is such that whenever the specific members are added to a report the measure would be weighted. For example when Member ABC is added to the report a...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Large reference datasets handled better

We have multiple business needs to create and be able to edit/delete large reference data sets (over 1 million code/value pairs) on the Cloud Pak for Data platform, such as different charge codes. Currently, all of these values can be imported, bu...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

"Create and run diagnostics" jobs action should available under "View platform health" permission

Related Epic CPDIDEAS-I-795 We have certain group of restricted users, who need to have permission for collect diagnostics data in case of any problem encounter with CPD and open support ticket with IBM. But these group of restricted users shouldn...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Autozoom of Planning Analytics views to fit the contents into the available viewing area

If a view in Planning Analytics is created with a default zoom of 100% and then it is visualized by a user who has on his/her pc a different zoom level (e.g. 125% as default zoom for Windows 10 users), the view is difficult to read because it does...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Change default CA Datasource type from OLEDB to NativeClient for MSSQL connections

Cognos Controller configuration currently creates datasources in Cognos Analytics using the OLEDB driver for MSSQL connections. Controller by itself requires use of SQL Server Native client, so it would make sense to change the database driver tha...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Change Identity Insight to honor Liberty authentication and authorization configuration

We are unable to use Identity Insight v9, iFix006 as obtained from IBM without patching SOAPTransformerServlet and RESTTransformerServlet. This is because iFix006 implements enhanced security which broke our local app that makes SOAP calls to the ...
over 3 years ago in Identity Insight 1 Future consideration

Setting APPLCOMPAT at BIND of QMF packages

We apply service to QMF for TSO. That includes running DSQ1BPKG to bind packages. All packages are bound with APPLCOMPAT(V11R1) although we have set DSNZPARM APPLCOMPAT=V12R1M504. The APPLCOMAT parameter for the BIND is set by DSQ1BPKO and there ...
over 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 2 Delivered

Transferring ownership of Annotation Sets

Problem When annotation sets are created by WKS and assigned to the selected (by the Project Manager) human annotators (HA), the ownership of the annotation sets cannot be changed. This means that if a HA is temporarily or permanently unavailable ...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration