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Lists and crosstabs are imported as image objects in PowerPoint

When importing report contents into PowerPoint, lists / cross tables should also be importable as Images.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CAMKeystore should be a part of Cognos functionality

Problem statement : Unable to find the encryption certificate with alias 'encryption' in the keystore, Due to this error not able to start IBM cognos services Regenerate cryptographic keys to resolve the same but currently there are no special log...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Change job submit time to include milliseconds for precision.

Job submit time to include milliseconds for precision. Instead of HH:MM:SS, make it like 12:29:05.1234. This will enable this column to be used as a unique identifier when generating data in an incremental fashion. We are extracting the RTM data a...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 4 Not under consideration

Add the ability to control db2sqljcustomize behavior on untyped host variables and prevent silent data type conversion

We modernize a banking database application originally written in COBOL by migrating the functionality into a new written Java application. During this application migration we noticed that there is an issue with unexpected/unwanted data type con...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

PA for Excel: Drop down that shows/opens saved views in Viewer

It would be great to have a drop down in Viewer that shows/opens saved views.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Long Identifiers (128 bytes) in Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2)

Long Identifiers in Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2) Oracle 12.2 increases the maximum size of most identifiers from 30 to 128 bytes. https://oracle-base.com/articles/12c/long-identifiers-12cr2
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

View dynamic cube messages in audit database or get notifications on failure via mail

When dynamic cubes fail to load or are unable to refresh their member or data cache, this is not logged in the audit database. The only convenient way to view these messages is via the cube messages in the cognos administration console. This way, ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

MSG_DATE format should follow $DBDATE if defined

Several customers would like the format of the date written to online.log when we have the MSG_DATE parameter defined/activated to follow the format of DBDATE.Currently it seems to follow the American standard (MONTH / DAY / YEAR2).
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Require that symA wait for an instance to join the cluster before returning it.

Require that symA wait for an instance to join the cluster before returning it. Currently the symA can return an instance before join. We can control this behaviour with a config param, but the default should be to wait.
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Add native "Cloud Events" standard support to IBM Mainframe software products similar to "OpenAPI" support in zOS Connect

"Cloud Events" is becoming an industry standard for async messaging and event publishing similar to how Swagger/OpenAPI specification became an industry standard for synchronous APIs. This also adopts another standard "Open Telemetry" that enables...
7 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration