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When using Top x Filter need option to group all other categories

When charting Top X categories we should give an option to simply group the other categories and display these on the chart as 'Other'. We'd see the Top X pluse one additional 'Other' category. This could be optional to choose to follow this group...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 2 Not under consideration

Dashboard Crosstabs - Top or Bottom Filter apply to specific column

In a Dashboard Crosstab the 'Top or Bottom' filter applies to all columns, it would be more useful if the user could specify which column in the crosstab the filter would apply too.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dashboard Boomarks

Ability to bookmark a dashboard.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to create and update the range/ drop values for custom attributes created in UI via API

We need the ability to create and update the range/ drop values for custom attributes created in UI via API. We anticipate to update values very frequently doing manually through UI is not efficient.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Support DESC keyword for describing schema objects

Simple request: Support the DESC keyword commonly used by other databases as a synonym for the wordy 'INFO COLUMNS FOR'. This will help new users to Informix as well as being less to type for everybody else.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Add Table Action Truncate for BigQuery Connector

On CP4D DataStage NextGen the table actions available for BigQuery connector currently are Append and Replace. According official docs: Method Description Append Append creates the table if the table doesn’t exist. If the table already exists, no ...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Deliver DSNHBNFE from SDSNSAMP in EBNF format

The DSNHBNFE member delivers a formal definition of the Db2 syntax in BNF format. However, tools like ANTLR can generate lexers/parsers automatically if the language is delivered in a EBNF format. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Backus%E2%8...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 13 Not under consideration

Support of MVS SMF logstream for DB2 utility : DSN1SMFP

At this time IBM recommend to migrate SMF dataset to logstream to have better performances and usuability. We have done that but when we try to use DSN1SMFP DB2 utility to read DB2 SMF records we have and abend : IEC141I 013-A8 We think this tools...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Provide .NET Standard 2.1 compliant nuget for use with Entity Framework 6.4+

Support, We currently are converting our applications to .NET Core. Microsoft provided a .NET Standard 2.1 compatible version of EF starting with EF 6.3 and continuing with EF 6.4. The issue however is we are having issues getting your latest EF 6...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 6

IBM CDC multiple OU recognition in the ldap.properties

We have to give full hierarchy of OU for the user in authUserBaseDN, which means it is restricting to use users from two different OUs.i. Example: current we have used “authUserBaseDN=OU=ConsultantAccounts,OU=Users,OU=Corporate,DC=tiffco,DC=netâ...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration