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Automated reports emailed to user

Controller currently requires users to login and run reconciliation reports. Users have requested the ability to add some automation to this process so that the reconciliation report is sent by email.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

dynamically allocated 1000000 locks

this message will start to show repeatedly in the online log:dynamically allocated 1000000 locksbut no more info than that - in order to track down the issue, we need to know what session is causing the increase in locks
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

When using Exclude for Target/Source and there is a mask, GOC should require only Target.

The application of the same exclude on SRC and TGT is going to be useful only in scenarios where the customer has a mask and wants to exclude the same objects on both SRC and TGT. In the case of only wanting to partially exclude either a SRC or a ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Method to treat Null values as zero

This is only one example of where this problem may occur: We have a complex FM model which has been designed to return relative time values based upon the notes discussed here - https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/cognos/page90.html Th...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Optimizer should ignore RTRIM when calculation filter factor

When the optimizer calculates the filter factor for a predicate which uses RTRIM, it just returns the default value. (0.04)It should ignore the RTRIM and use the COLCARD of the column stats instead. Refer to Case: TS001114316
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Need level based indention for Planning Analytics for Excel custom reports

Level based indention is used in Explorations and Dynamic Reports, but not Custom Reports. There is a setting option to use level based indention on Quick Reports, but not Custom Reports.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Auto-size INDEX_MEMORY_CONTROL system parameter and auto-populate SYSIBM.SYSINDEXCONTROL

To avoid manual analysis and reap the benefits of in-memory index structure / FTB. To automatically allocate more than 20MB (when appropriate) for INDEX_MEMORY_CONTROL zparm. To identify list of indexes that would benefit from FTB based on actual ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Adding a pop up in planning analytics workspace

When we make a button and link it with some process present in TM1 and once the user click on the button the process in the back end in TM1 is fired and there is a buffering sign that comes up. Once the process is completed the buffering sign goes...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change the PAW waiting icon

We want to heavily use PAW to present reports. However, as PAW syncs across books, users MUST know to give PAW a second to sync. The WAIT icon is far too transparent/translucent in PAW. Make it obvious that the user needs to wait. Here's a use c...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Using distinct subsets and/or dimension attributes on distinct views on a same tab/book

Customer has a book with two views, one is a exploration, the other is a bar graph. Both this views are using the same cube and dimensions. A dimension (Region) has as its names/codes values are MS1, MS2, MG1, MG2 and so on. Captions for these ele...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration