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Workflow Enhancement -- Current Quarter and Year Function

I commonly bump into needing to fill in a drop down value with current year or quarter on a stage transition. I am request the ability for have a [$Current_Year] or [$Current_Quarter] function rather than need to develop a simple trigger to push t...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Catalog Admins should be able to manage Private Assets

Currenty only Asset Owners or Members can view a Private Asset. Admins should be able to take the same actions on private assets as public assets. Admins of a catalog should be able to see private assets to ensure that the correct asset members ar...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Select Alias from dimension short cut menu on views

It would be great to be able to change the Alias for a dimension hierarchy from the shortcut menu of the dimensions selector, similar to the way we can change the hierarchy. Currently we have to open the Set Editor to change the Alias or select th...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Instrument workfile high-watermarks in ACCTG

Instrument IFCID 0003 and IFCID 0148 counter(s) to show the maximum amount of Workfile used by a thread (4K blocks total, or separate by tables/indexes, or separate by 4K/32K Workfiles -- implementation choice.) It is difficult to manage Workfile ...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Expand db2pd -reorgs index to cover index rebuilds

Currently, there is no way to monitor index rebuild progress using db2pd. It will be useful for customers to be able to monitor index rebuild progress as they do for index reorgs (db2pd -reorgs index).
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Administrators are able to set the startpageurl preference in Controller centrally

The startpageurl preference is not available at server preference level and has to be setup and configured by each user themselves.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Zparm to specify maximum amount of bufferpool storage

Please provide a Zparm to specify the maximum amount of bufferpool storage DB2 may aquire for all of the bufferpools.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Deliver a warning when importing a deployment with security

When importing a deployment you may not know that the import has security enabled and it will overwrite the existing security. There should be a warning stating this.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Trigger support on nickname

I tried to implement a trigger to update nicknames but received the following error. Without this function, the following design is not possible, I have to put the reporting and online schema into 1 database if I want to use triggers for synchroni...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Adding new values to CHECK Constraints should not put Table in CHECK PENDING

There are many instances today when existing CHECK Constraints have to be modified to add additional values. Currently, making any modifications to CHECK Constraints to add or remove values requires that the Constraint be dropped and re-created. T...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration