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Enable to add custom first names to the underlying language dictionaries

Security organizations would like to analyze reports, in these reports officers often use partial person names (only last names for example). In SPSS Text Analytics there in an extraction option for "Group partial and full person names together", ...
about 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Text Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide option to exclude types of activities from Past Activities

It would be very helpful to have a way to exclude certain types of activities (such as Event Studio agent runs) from the "Past Activities" view of Administration (either in the C10 "Cognos Connection" Administration screens and/or the new C11 "Act...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

508 Compliance : Table Data and Table Header to Table Definition

this is an ask for adding table header cells and table header cells to table definition. Currently we seeing this issue from Dashboard perspective
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Logs translated to english

Updates 03/28/2024. Two requirements - (1) This is clarified by ING few weeks back they want the user interface in a language other than whats set in Browser Locale. Engineering researching and would do some PoC. May be large effort and a larger i...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Under review

Set Special Registers with profile tables for local applications

It would be nice to set the current explain mode (special register) with the help of profile tables (dsn_profile_table & dsn_profile_attributes) for local applications. In our case it's CICS. At the moment it's only possible for remote applica...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

MEMORY_TEMP_POOL_EXCEEDED in TIs

we are managing in our TIs the return code of the TI execution in order to display results to users. For example, we have the following: return_value = Executeprocess( XXX ); If( return_value = ProcessExitNormal() ); vStatus = 'COMPLETE'; ElseIf( ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Informix HQ monitoring of raw disks

At the moment the Informix HQ product tries to monitor the storage using a "df -k" command This will not work though when Informix is running on raw disks.
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Reintroduce the Proven Practice documents

IBM used to provide a number of proven practice documents that covered reporting, Admin, modelling etc. While the link to the webpage still exists in the on line documentation, the page is redirected to to an unrelated site. Documentation page - h...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Rotate an archive-enabled PBR tablespace without causing a deadlock

When we try to rotate partitions of an archive-enabled PBR tablespace, Db2 requires us to disable archiving before the rotate then re-enable archiving after the rotate. However, when we re-enable archiving we cause a deadlock with CICS and the onl...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Create a function to allow a TI to be executed with user's security rights instead of the default Admin rights.

Create a function to force a TI to take security into account called in the prolog section The function could be similar to the one that allows TIs to overwrite locks (CubeLockOverwrite), which is called out once in the prolog section and modifies...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration