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Size of Cognos Generated Prompt (Select Box)

The Cognos generated prompt shows up with a very small width and the user has to use the scroll bar to see the entire value. Need this box to get the width of the maximum length of the values in the prompt.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request to leverage the connection to Denodo to automatically populate custom attributes for Information Governance Mapping in IBM Knowledge Catalog.

Current Challenges:We currently manage around 10-15 custom attributes manually in IBM Information Governance Catalog (IGC). However, the data for these attributes resides in Denodo, leading to inefficiencies and the potential for errors during man...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Request for the ability to create custom event-based workflows, specifically triggered by a date field, within IBM Knowledge Catalog.

Current Challenges: The default workflow templates lack the flexibility to include nested conditions, making it challenging to automate complex processes effectively. Enhancement Request: We propose the addition of event-based workflow creation th...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information

Please Log the Pre and Post Exec Runtimes in MBD and through Events

The Pre-exec start event is logged, but there is no event for the post exec. So, it's almost impossible for us to track the runtimes of post exec without adding additional layers to our external reporting. We would prefer these metrics to be track...
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add Spark3.5.1 with Java 11 support enabled

There are a lot of improvements noted in Spark version 3.5.1 when compared to 3.3.1. Immediate driver for this version of Spark is the support for a defensive mechanism against SQL injections. There are other beneficial features: Spark connect, En...
6 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Submitted

Interoperability of Cognos Controller excel files with other excel documents and speed

Two issues that reporting entities have faced while working on Cognos excel file: a) Slower speed and system crashing while entities reports their financial information during the peak time. b) Unable to save Cognos forms when multiple non-Cognos ...
6 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Is a defect

TM1 and Cognos Controller Interoperability

TM1 crashes or takes reasonably long time to process reports if run from ‘Perspective’ in Excel, while running along with Cognos Controller. TM1 and Cognos controller should be compatible and should not crash if both application running in the par...
6 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Workflow system fields

Ability to capture the stage name from the action going into that stage into an object field such that this can be made available to the user/reporting for understanding the current position in the workflow. The current system fields are transitor...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

LOAD into accelerator table via ALIAS name

Currently, with IDAA Loader v2.1 it is not possible to LOAD data into target accelerator tables that are referenced via ALIAS names. It would be helpful and a great enhancement, e.g. for migration scenario to future IDAA versions, to reference the...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Advanced query hint to use 'Group By' instead of 'Distinct' in SQL

In some cases, we would need an advanced query hint to use “Group By” instead of “Distinct” in the SQL per report or per query tree. We are aware of the DQM query property “performance.convertGroupByToDistinct” which is set to “true” by default (f...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration