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Manage display name on container

Catalog name is displayed to end-users (in left panel / module) and it cannot be renamed. In Catalog console / Catalog Attributes, can you add a feature to update "catalog name" in order to : 1) adapt name to potential organizational change2) use ...
about 7 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Access Rights management on Lookup table

All lookup tables are accessible to a user who got access right to menu "Lookup console". We would like to have same ACG mechanism which is implemented on Catalog / Hierarchy to manage different level of access.
about 7 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

modify dsntep2 to produce result set despite exceessive warnings

DB2 and IDAA do not produce the same results for the example in question. That has been explained and will be documented but we would like to see DSNTEP2 at least run and produce output instead of only returning SQL error codes (-171 in our exampl...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IWA: Need support for SQL function INSTR(), i.e., in-string

Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) does not support the SQL function INSTR(), which allows us to search a substring within a string, and gets the location or character position of that substring inside the string. Informix does support substring...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

TCR - Insert Item pop-up Comment boxes contents to be passed to the CIF User Exit so we an validate

Please change TCR to pass the Insert Item pop-up Comment boxes contents to the CIF User Exit so we can validate the contents of the Comment boxes, just like we do for the contents of the Custom Attribute boxes. Balancing operator can either use th...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Not under consideration

CICS Logstream Replication

Looking for a solution to replicate CICS logstreams from a primary site to a secondary site to support Continuity of Business (COB). The CICS logstreams include both CICS VSAM after-image records and CICS user journal records written by CICS appli...
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Controller on Cloud - Expose SQL DB to allow import of data via staging table and import spec

We have a Controller On-Prem customer considering migrating to Controller on Cloud. They have built a small app that loads data from their ERP into Controller via the Staging Table, and then initiates a data load via an Import Spec. In order for t...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Exposure Limit Monitor Start/End Date should allow for year to be specified

On the Partner Details screen, Risk Management/Exposure Limit Monitors- you can specify an Effective Begin Date (MM/dd) and an Effective End Date (MM/dd) but you cannot specify the year. In principle, the idea of having the ability to have monitor...
over 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

Retrieve specific catalog version after change in web UI

On the left panel of MDM CE web UI the catalog version can be changed.Then when selecting an item, data that are displayed in tabs must correspond to catalog selected version.For custom tabs there's no way to get the current version of the catalog...
about 7 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

XML Node cannot handle multiple values for a XML element

XML data source picks up the first value for an XML element with multiple values. All other values for the same XML element are ignored. When I use the XPath expression, the fields having multiple value is dropped, and takes on a NULL value. While...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration