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Ability to use Named Sets from Dynamic Cube as slicer/context filter in Studios

Named sets are a great addition to cubing technology, which are similar to creating "public" version of custom subsets that were available in PowerPlay. But they cannot be simply added to a report as a slicer or context filter.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Manage Default Action for Reports

Currently, all newly-created reports have the Default Portal Action of "View most recent report." This can be changed for an individual report by going into its Properties > Report > Advanced, but there is currently no mechanism to globally ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Lock access plan for a query. Prevent the optimizer from changing a plan, once a "good" plan has been determined.

We see cases where a large query runs fine, and something changes the stats, which causes the optimizer to choose a really bad plan. We would like to be able to lock an individual query, and tell the optimizer: "Just use this plan".
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

DBSPACETEMP environment variable needs to accommodate multiple page sizes concurrently

When using DBSPACETEMP, the listing in onconfig is limited to one pagesize. The environment variable for DBSPACETEMP also allows for one page size. The engine needs to be able to pick the correct pagesize for temp space usage, and the current arch...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Workspace Visualization "Repeat (column)" and "Repeat (row)" title formatting

It's not possible in Workspace, when working with a Visualization that offers "Repeat (column)" and "Repeat (row)" to format the title of the various repeated visualizations. Please enable the same consistent set of tools available to format other...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Verify OVERFLOWLOGPATH is valid at the BEGINNING and allow override in RESTORE DATABASE command.

When restoring a DB2/LUW database Db2 currently restores the database and then abneds if the OVERFLOWLOGPATH is invalid. A restore can take many hours and having the restore fail at the end of the restore wastes all those hours.
over 4 years ago in Db2 5 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 - Data Server UI Modification For Useability

In the Manage, Data Servers UI in Cognos 11, can I alter the config files and add a comment up top, right below "data servers"? If we're going to allow users to create data servers, I want to give them some guidance And/or: can I alter the config ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 database in a read only mode

Ability to place a DB2 database in a read only mode for a period of time. Out side of the "db2 set write suspend for database" or a quiesce.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

In the world of Multi-core processors, the context switches per second has become a KPI. It should be a standard performance metric like mem, r1m, etc.

When we try to oversubscribe hosts, it would be very beneficial to have ctx/second available as a base metric. It's available in all OS' these days. We could set a busy threshold for that say above 40k/second. For the longest time (maybe 31 years)...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

OpenPages - Automatic Profile Switching based on ObjectType

Hi, many of our users have different profiles for our different modules. When they are accessing a task directly (via email link) they often receive an error message that their current profile does not allow access to this object type. Especially ...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

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