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Link PAW security to TM1 control cubes

Link PAW security to TM1 control cubes Replicate “}ApplicationSecurity” cube for workbook security, dimensions are }WorkbookEntries }GroupsThe settings in the cube are• View only - The user can view content in the book but can't edit it.• ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Character length semantics instead of byte length semantics

We want to store UTF8 text data into our database but using byte length semantics is counter intuitive on the char and varchar types. We are using Fourj's Genero tool to develop our application and Genero is able to switch to character length sema...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

Automatically reorder time categories on bar/column forecasts

The forecasting capability in Cognos 11.1.4 is awesome, and the fact that it automatically orders time categories chronologically rather than alphanumeric is doubly awesome. However it only does this in line charts, not bar/column charts.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Automated Re-creation of Select-Star Views

If a view is created by using a 'SELECT *' statement, the view is not updated when a new column is added to the base table. An example: create table dm_tab(N integer, M integer) organize by row; insert into dm_tab(N, M) values (1, 2); create view ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Enhance the -904 REASON 00E30305 with the root cause of the failing AUTOBIND

The APAR PH13350 enhancement writes a notification DSNT408I SQLCODE = -904, ERROR: UNSUCCESSFUL EXECUTION CAUSED BY AN UNAVAILABLE RESOURCE. REASON 00E30305 , TYPE OF RESOURCE This is a useful notification but it can be quite difficult to find the...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Require Support for Spark 3.5.x and python 3.11

Python version 3.11 is required and no current Spark versions support it
5 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Submitted

Support reading a CLOB field at least from DB2

Currently we have to cast a CLOB field as VARCHAR in order to read it into modeler from a DB2 source, and then we only get the first N characters. Please support reading entire CLOB as a string of size at least 256K characters or preferably more o...
5 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

use microcharts in the dashboard module

in the legacy report module it is possible to add microcharts in lists. This is not possible anymore in the dashboard module, and also not available as a new 11.* visualization. I would like the microchart to be available in the dashboard module a...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Re-usable Supernodes -- multiple instances of same one can occur in stream but modifying it immediately modifies all instances. Like a callable Function/Subroutine/Macro in programming languages.

Often we want to perform the same set of operations ("sub-flow") in multiple places in the stream, e.g. for similar/parallel data either from different data sources, or destined for different output or export nodes. It is essential that the *same*...
5 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

We are requesting the that all data that is part of the downloadable elements be available for Downlowding, for example, Profiling elements are missing several items

Tables with download option should have all information, at times not everything is downloaded.
5 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted