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The level of bundled open-source components should be clearly stated in the Release Notes or Technotes at the time of DataStage release. Additionally, the impact of differences in open-source components on DataStage should also be clearly indicated.

Currently, there is no mention of open-source components in the Release Notes (e.g. https://www.ibm.com/docs/ja/iis/11.7.0?topic=rn-infosphere-information-server-version-1171-fix-pack-5-releasenotes) or in the installation-related information prov...
4 months ago in Information Server  / DataStage 1 Not under consideration

An enhancement to allow switching the character type handling method for retrieving multibyte data from char and varchar types in the ODBC connector by using an environment variable.

When retrieving multibyte data from char or varchar columns through the ODBC connector, DataStage currently requires the corresponding target column types to be set to nchar or nvarchar, depending on whether the source system handles the data base...
5 days ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

Schema Validation using Avro File Format under File Connector stage (AvroStreams)

Schema Validation exists with old avro1.x version but not with Avrostreams. Schema vadliation should be always available Avrostreams which avoid CLASSPATH setting.
about 1 month ago in Information Server  / DataStage 0 Submitted

Setting Variables, such as style or render, should be available on multi-selected items

If I want to apply the same attributes to multiple items in a report, then I can select the many items and apply the property.For example, if I want to apply the same conditional style, font to a number of list columns then I can select all the ap...
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Macro functional parity of prompt/paramvalue and promptmany

The cognos macro language has the ParamValue function which is great for getting parameters without causing a missing parameter exception (and a prompt appearing). ParamValue can only be used for single values. It has feature parity with the Promp...
27 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Enable queryValue() and queryValues() for Report Queries and Data Items

As of today, both macro functions queryValue() and queryValues() can only be used with direct source paths (e.g., package or data module). It would be extremely beneficial for report authors if these functions could also reference report queries a...
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Drill-Through Mapping for Reports

Having the ability to see how a report is linked to/from other reports via drill-throughs, would be very useful see at a glance as opposed to manually following the drill-through tool.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

There needs to be a Default setting for font effects.

There needs to be a Default setting for font effects. The font dialogue box has Default options for Family, Size, Weight and Style yet does not have a Default option for effects (Underline, Overline, Line through). This makes it difficult to turn ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Request for Provision of APIs for Automated Control of Resource Limits at Project Level in Cloud Pak for Data (on Prem) Monitoring

In IBM Cloud Pak for Data (on Prem), under Monitoring → Status summary → Projects → Set quotas, it is currently possible to manually define and enforce resource limits via the UI—such as vCPU and memory thresholds—at project level. To enable autom...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

add the ability to change a variables name within the expression editor

Within a query within a report the expression editor has a Name and Expression Definition fields. This allows you to enter a name for an expression and also the expression within a single window. Contrast that with the expression editor for a repo...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release