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Use a value as a parameter to which you can assign a color thru the whole dashboard or BI environment

When you move within reports and/or to a Dashboard. It would be great if the same color would ALWAYS stays with the same item (Product, KPI, etc....) Even as simple KPI Answers as Yes , Very Likely , Sometimes or No . We can assign a number at the...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

FTM Purge Utility : Support jdbc type2 connection on z/OS

Add support for jdbc type2 connection from the purgeDB utility and FTM core.This support is requested for 2 reasons :1 - Performance : With type-2 ( cross mem ), we expect to reduce communication overhead for jdbc link.2 - Workload Management : Wi...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Optim audit tables retaining too much data

In the table Optim_Audit_Records, I see 1-2 records per archive/extract/insert. This appears to have started in Nov 2017 about when installed optim 11.3. Yet we have Optim Auditing turned off. So it appears that maybe Optim 11.3 started putting re...
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

allow multiple return urls in OIDC namespace

Since current cognos OIDC namespace only allows 1 Return URL, we can only access cognos using the domain name specified in return URL, which is normally gateway URL. If we need to access cognos via Dispatcher URL, we need to create additional name...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Extend document removal API to work with removal queries

There have been several issues discovered when working with discovery and very dynamic date / agile prototyping. It is not possible (currently) to remove multiple documents, just 1 at a time. Often in the beginning of a project the data is ingeste...
almost 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Drop Databases Created by Implicit Mapping Tables

Problem statement/ pain point: We have started to use on-line reorgs without specifying the mapping table because v11 will generate one for you. Pretty cool. Db2 will create a database, DSNnext_db_identity_number, create a table space, create the ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PHASE II : Support for python ibm_db driver on z/OS using z ODBC driver

The requirement is to offer connectivity to Db2 on z/OS natively by using the z/OS ODBC driver. The python driver has been enhanced to successfully compile on the z/OS platform, and basic validation and regression suite validation has been done. W...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add option :statement rollback is able to release the locks for the failed statement.

When -803 ( violating unique key constrain ) happen on a statement, there are two things happen1) db2 still hold the lock on the row accessed by the statement that cause -803 , no matter the statement had fail.2) The transaction was not rollbacked...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Rebuild should materialize pending changes on indexes

Recently we had big problems with index splits. Therefore we altered the bufferpool from 4K-pages to 8K-pages and run a rebuild. But we had to ran a reorg on the whole tablespace, which has about 1 billion rows and a few indexes, which we wanted t...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Copy&Paste of reporting elements: Possibility to select whether references should be copied as well or not

When copying elements (lists, cross tabs, queries) all references will be copied as well and when a query exists already a new one is inserted with a number added (1, 2, 3). This is not always suitable, and the user should have the possibility to ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration