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Remove en-us suffix when background running reports file name

Remove en-us suffix when background running reports
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Replacement of Rest API calls for XMETA information with database connectors for much much faster retrieval

Hello, My team is trying to run a job in Data Stage on ING Datalakes and it takes around 10+ hours to complete. Performance issue is generated by Rest API calls while retrieving data from XMETA, daily run being questionable due to this approach....
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Upgrade of secondary server without restore from primary

Assuming we're upgrading a sever which is a primary server in a MACH-11 cluster, it should be able to save all the new page images (of changed pages during the conversion) in the file system. Very similar to what we do in the CONVERSION_GUARD feat...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Cognos BI - Prevent concurrent sessions in Cognos

Please contact glenda.satuito@accenture.com for this request. How Cognos works is that once a user is authenticated, a CAM object will be created in the content manager. This object is referenced by a CAM Passport passed back to the browser. The C...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Replication support for HPSS feature

Technical Problem Assume there is a partitioned tablespace and some parts are archived via HPSS. Therefore, there are archived and non-archived partitions. Db2 transparent archive is not the case in this scenario. There is only one table with PBR ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to externalize Statistics to RTS after Runstats

In seldom cases (~1%) Online Reorgs abend because the TOTALROWS column in the SYSTABLESPACESTATS are wrong. Then we do Runstats and update the RTS. The question is, why the number of rows is not externalized after doing a RUNSTATS. The value after...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Add support for Python 3.9 and 3.10 to cplex & docplex packages (they support a very limited number of Python versions)

Please add support for Python 3.9 and 3.10 to the cplex and docplex Python packages as soon as possible and upload new binary packages (wheels) to the Python Package Index. The cplex package currently supports Python 3.7 and 3.8. According to the...

Do not save outputs for report in jobs delivered by email

Hello, when we launch a job with several report views inside and select delivery method as "Send a link to the reports by email", we have to select also "Save the reports" otherwise there is an warning message! By doing this the output will be sav...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

On Demand offering should have timezone the same as the datacentre where it was ordered.

When we run reports in New Zealand using data calculations, all our reported values change at 3PM! Very embarrassing to try and explain why our actuals change and a bad look for Cognos Analytics which is supposed to be providing consistent details...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Support data entry shortcuts in PAx Reports

PAx has the ability to support Expansions via JSON expressions to define macros for data entry (ex: 5k is translated to 5,000), but these macros are only available for data entry directly in the cube viewer. Request to expand this to all valid dat...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration