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Externalise the table name from the "as locator" clause in a create external procedure statement.

This is required to reverse engineer DDL for external stored procedures
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Additional Runstats and Copy options when Applying a Change

When applying Schema change using DOE to a target test environment the following additional Runstats and Copy options would be very beneficial: Preserve existing Runstats (rather than Runstats Yes or No) Allow the option of No Copy, but do REPAIR ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to change date format display on date entry

When I am editing a business term and I choose to set a start or end date the format is in USA date format. This should be able to be changed to other formats for none USA deployments
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Linked actuality currency conversion also for Group Journals

Currently Currency-conversion and consolidation is not done for Group-journals, stored on GAC's. In the old consolidation model this was not possible, in NYKOMO this should be possible
about 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

TM1 cube views description box and hover-over

In TM1, users and admin create cube views and attempt to save it as a relatable and coherent name such as Variance_Bud_Act_2017, and sometimes just Discretionary_Exps and so forth. With the more frequent use of CAFE and soon to be PAx, all of thes...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

to determine that the element following the current element is an element in the tables being accessed and not a ‘rename’ and generate an error message

Currently, when compiling a Cobol program if a comma is missing from the second to last field in a SELECT the DB2 pre-compiler will not give an error because it treats the second table element as a 'rename' this creates problems because no error i...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Root Folder by tenant for Multitenant Installations

Currently you can specify a custom folder for a tenant and it shows on the menu bar, but it is still referenced under Team Content as a sub-folder. We have the scenario where we have our base content that needs to be deployed on a per tenant basis...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

DKIM

with e-mail spoofing on the rise the use of SPF, DKIM and DMARC are on the raise as Cognos Analytics can send e-mails out to user's it would be nice if Cognos Analytics could be configured to use DKIM with the e-mails so companies can use tighter ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Consistent handling for exportModel(), writeMIPStarts() , etc

The handling where methods like e.g. exportModel() and writeMIPStarts() is not consistent and not intuitive. In case no absolute path is specifies, exportModel() always writes the file parallel to the mod-file. Whereas writeMIPStarts(), while star...
over 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Not under consideration

New National Language Support data type with variable size greater then 255 bytes.

The current NVARCHAR data type supports maximum of 255 bytes. In case of use UTF-8 it's not sufficient becuase it means to store about 127 UTF-8 characters.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration