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Ability to Custom size column and rows in Dashboard Tables Object

The table control auto sizes itself based on the data and is typically auto generating the ugliest possible format. Columns are way too big for some values, way too small for others, impossible to make into a small are to display some data. In 11....
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Show filter text for advanced expressions

We have transitioned our Query Studio users to Cognos Analytics Report and they are liking it except they would like to be able to show on the report what filters are being applied. We have shown them the option to Insert Filter Text, but when the...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Using case attributes as quereies

The client has a requirement to see exactly case related transactions under the case when we use a calendar profile. For example; (1month calendar - txns amount > 1000 and sent to Turkey).. We can put a query with the same conditions and I can ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Future consideration

Add saved report outputs to search

Add existing saved report outputs to Cognos Search. They should be indexed and made available so contents of generated HTML-, Excel- PDF-, csv- and xml-files can be found via Cognos Search. There should also be an option to enable/disable search w...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Improve performance of queries with correlated subqueries in IDAA v7 - another

This request for enhancement is related to queries with correlated sub-queries that IDAAs V7 don't have capacity to solve. Accordingly with IBM support it will be necessary that: remove correlated predicates that do not have reference of columns/e...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Parameter Cache: Additional successful entries are getting created for the reports during the scheduled Job execution/individual report runs

Currently, we are able to view the entries for the parameter cache from appearing in the history in the below scenarios: We are able to see entries for parameter cache for interactive report runs in Administration, though interactive run history ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Copy Streams

When using SPSS Modeler, data scientists may want to use existing streams as a base, or just copy them as backups. This is not possible (SPSS Modeler in CP4D), the only workaround is to export to local str-file and create a new Stream using the ex...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Functionality already exists

An analog of LOG_HADR_WAIT_TIME monitor element is needed at the agent level

Sometimes it's very useful to understand HADR influence on the transaction performance. We do have a couple of related elements - LOG_WRITE_TIME and LOG_HADR_WAIT_TIME at the whole database level, but their values can't help us to understand, if H...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Allow triggers install/updates without taking an outage for the box

Currently to install new triggers on a table or update triggers on a table requires outage for the box which impacts our end user customer. Our operations are 24X7X365 and don't have any outage window to work with.
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Functionality already exists