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Make multiple DDL changes transactional

Why is it useful? When complex changes are made in DDL and one of the changes fails, it can get pretty hard to revert the issue. Who would benefit from it? Implementing this idea would tremendously help database administrators. How should it work?...
over 1 year ago in Db2 2 Functionality already exists

Global Search results additional field

In the Standard interface it was possible to add an extra field for Global search results. This is no longer possible with version 8.3 which does not include anymore the Standard Interface. I would like to request to make available in 8.3 the opti...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

View Synonym and Stopword Files in Discovery v2

We should be able to see the filename for Stopwords and Synonyms, when it was uploaded, and by whom. We should be able to view the stopword or synonym file before blindly deleting it. We should also be able to save/download the file.
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Custom control on saved outputs and when scheduling reports with auto-generated prompts page

Custom control using JS code is working fine when we run report interactively, Same is not working when we schedule the report using batch process .Please let us know how this can be fixed in CA11, we have tested the functionality in 11.0.5 & ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics: Add ability to control amount of uploaded data at group/user level

In Cognos Analytics, we can control amount of data at the system level only (Manage > Configuration). I can see a need to grant more space to other users or groups.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add %ADD_MONTHS Expression to Support Rolling Date Filtering

We need to be able to replicate only the data created within last 12 months based on the CREATE_TSTMP column. There is a workaround: have a Java exit for this callable via %USERFUNC. However, even that solution is not provided by IBM and has to be...
9 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Big Query connector uses legacy API by default which is adding 90 minutes of wait time for the streaming buffer to be flushed for DML operations to be performed. We need functionality in BQ connector to be able to use Storage write API to avoid this wait time

If a BQ job abends for some reason due to connectivity issue etc, the application team has to wait for 90 min to restart the job 2nd time. if this issue occurs in critical flow, it is causing SLA miss which is causing business impact
9 months ago in Connectivity 1 Under review

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...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to rotate log files with Connection manager

At the moment the informix connection manager keeps a constant handle on it's log files You cannot rotate logfiles without firts shutting down the connectin manager
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration