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Support for Bit type from MS SQL Server

We use a Bit field as a boolean to indicate if a record is the current record for our customer. Currently, it is not supported and requires casting to another type.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Utility History Support

For the utility history support it will be a very nice feature to include a canned report option which gives the utilities that were running at a point in time for an object or a list of objects e.g. at a database level or currently in scope on th...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Allow relative path for dashboard images

Adding an image to a dashboard, the URL property does not allow relative path which makes deploying to different environments challenging.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Fill gap with Oracle optimizer on RP tables

DB2 optimizer in v10.5/v11.1 has still several weaknesses in generating correct plan when using RP tables, because it bases its plan only on global stats when partition (data and indexes) stats are available. Case TS001150102
over 6 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Framework to data modules convertion

Have a tool to convert Framework Manager models (model.xml) to data modules whenever possible. Our target: Avoid having to rewrite data modules from scratch when FM models already exist
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Enhancements on JSON functionality

We would like to have further enhancements in JSON area like PostgreSQL and Oracle has. Is there any plans on more functions in this area? Db2's JSON support is quite basic.
about 1 year ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Managing private books in personal folders in Planning Analytics Workspace during asset migration.

Raising this enhancement on behalf of Huntsman team: Currently when migrating assets via LifeCycle Management in PA workspace, one of the limitation indicates: "You can migrate assets that exist in the Shared folder or in your Personal folde...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Access management report to show users with their permission on objects

Currently, it is not possible to pull a report who (User, Role, Group) and what access (run, read, full) has to objects (folder, datamodul, dashboard, report...).Also, last-log-in date would be a great advantage to delete inactive users.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide Db2 history of installs/updates including date

For auditing and compliance purposes, Db2 needs to easily make the following information available:- Database Version, Release, ModPack, FixPack (including security special builds)- Database Date/Time of the creation and subsequent updates- Databa...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

re-aasign new package to report from properties

Re-point a report to an alternative package from the properties dialogue
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists