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Disable "Automatic Group and Summery behavior for List"

Currently in the report development tool, this annoying feature is enabled by default. It can be disabled on report by report bases by going to /ellipsis/option/Report and un-checking this option. Please disable this feature by default or give use...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Support for new SAP BAPI function for query data more than 1M cells

Currently, when use Cognos BI query data from SAP BW. If the result is more than 1M cells SAP will return error message "BAP-ERR-0002 A BAPI error has occurred in the function module BAPI_MDDATASET_GET_AXIS_DATA. MDX result contains too many cells...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

stripchar() function requires use of accent grave instead of quotes (I'm not making this up!)

When attempting to use the stripchar() function in a DERIVE node to remove spaces, dashes and parentheses from a phone number string field, I encountered an error: failed to apply operator or function to argument types stripchar(SYMBOL,SYMBOL). Th...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Not under consideration

Log file rotation for Connection Manager on Windows

Using the Connection Manager LOGFILE token, it is not possible to rotate logs. Therefore they become large and unwieldy
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Change DSNHDECP from being hard coded

Db2 Admin has the name DSNHDECP hard coded into the product and this may cause problems for MetLife – they had the same problem with Optim products and had to get it changed. So the change need is to make the naming of DSNHDECP a variable at insta...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Detect like-named objects and convert to non-part objects on current SSID

Object Profile contained some like-named objects that were added to the profile when they were Partitioned and now they are no longer Partitioned. This would require us to update the Object Profile for those objects and resubmit the job.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Salesforce connector: support Loyalty Cloud module

A few months ago the need to access the Salesforce platform via SPSS emerged, in particular the Loyalty Cloud module, which was recently released on the market. Loyalty Cloud objects are available starting from version 51 of the APIs but, actually...
almost 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Better functionality in Company structure, Reorder

In Maintain > Company structure – Define, the Reorder-window, the drag-and-drop functionality is very time consuming, in larger groups. Please add the possibility to cut-and-paste row(s) as an alternative to drag-and-drop.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration

Search functionality in security groups

When changing/creating existing/new security groups for companies (Maintain > Rights > Security groups - Companies) there's no functionality for searching for a company/group company. All searching must be done manually which is very time co...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

request the nested fields will be available also in the Content Mining UI as well.

Our client are using the Box crawler in the Watson Discovery. This crawler is crawling data from the Box, however when analyzing documents in the Content Mining UI, it is unable to use facets which comes from metadata such as the author, folder na...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration