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Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Support for ON DELETE SET NULL and ON UPDATE CASCADE clauses in FOREIGN KEY statements

A customer wanted to use a construction like ALTER TABLE detail_table ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (link_column) REFERENCES master_table ON DELETE SET NULL; so that referencing values would be updated to NULL automatically if a parent row was delete...
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Configure Cognos Mail Server using OAuth

With the deprecation of basic authentication scheduled for October, the configuration of our SMTP server (Exchange online) will no longer work as this uses basic authentication. We need a way to use OAuth to connect to our 365 smtp server. There i...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Infosphere CDC for Db2® for z/OS - A new option like "alter_table_data_capture_flag_allow_turn_off"

We have tables in simultaneous replication with different products: CDC and SQL Replica both from IBM.Unfortunately, the CDC Z/OS does not have the ‘alter_table_data_capture_flag_allow_turn_off’ parameter that the ‘remote z/os source’ does and the...
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Enhancing Data Presentation in Excel for Planning Analytics

Excel remains the favored method for consuming data from Planning Analytics. However, users are not entirely satisfied with the presentation options of the Exploration Report, Quick Report, and the new Universal Report. They wish to display indivi...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Include CTQ reason / details in db2exfmt advanced diagnostics

We need an "Extended Diagnostic Information" in Explain (db2exfmt) that details if and why the column organized tables had been (early) converted to the row format for processing it in the row engine. This is important to detect performance issues...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 3 Not under consideration

Introduction of Framework 'View Transaction History' log or similar concept for Data Modules to capture changes.

The 'View Transaction History' log within Framework was a good way to identify evolving changes on a FM project. Data Modules, by my understanding, do not have this facility. This type of enhancement for DM's would be beneficial for developers to ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Submitted

Support deploying watsonx.data on Openshift on IBM Z

Our client wants to have an hybrid setting, using watsonx.data SaaS for their development/testing environments and later deploying production workloads on-premises, for compliance purposes. They have spare capacity on an IBM Z16 mainframe and woul...
9 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Not under consideration

Need HTTP proxy support on the Google connectors.

Ford intends to switch authentication method to -> Workload Identity Federation (WIF) with token URL. Our CP4D runs behind a firewall that prevents internet access, so the communication has to be done via Proxy and currently has a HTTP proxy,...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted
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Ability to make join queries on different packages in RA

Ability to make join queries on different packages in RA
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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