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RestAPI enhancement

Through RestAPi, we would like to get SessionTag & SessionName
8 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review

Dynamic Pivot table visualization in Dashboards

In Cognos Analytics we can build navigation paths to navigate within pivot table visualization . This is powerful and convenient. However sometimes the end-user is confused because : Applied filters are not visibles enough (only visible in the sma...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Request to have API's to give Details of the MDI/MDE Job Runs

We are looking for the API to list all the Job Statistics in the MDI/MDE Area. Referencing with current Log format in the Jobs run page Ex: MDI: "entity" : { "statistics" : { "discovered" : 2183, "discovered_with_children" : 2183, "submit_succ" : ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1

Download option for artifacts import summary

Hi Team, After importing the artifacts (business terms/ data classes or more) through csv file, the import summary didn't have the download option that client is expecting. Please add download option for import error report. Client imported the da...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

FAP Initial Publish Process Improvement

Currently, every time that FAP goes into Error State (which has been happening more often than we would like), we have to start an Initial Publish to put it back up, which takes a lot of time to complete (from 2 to 5 hours in some cases), and it s...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Changing number of rows for Grid on Task view

Our customer requested that it would be useful if we can change the number of rows for Grid on Task view. Currently , it is fixed number like "Items per page: 10".
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Future consideration

Add group excel functionnality in Cognos

Add a functionality in Cognos to be able to group rows when running a report to make them collapsible and expandable as it exists in Excel
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Compression for automatic DB2 backups

DB2 LUW includes a solution for automatic backup creation, which is enabled by AUTO_MAINT and AUTO_DB_BACKUP parameters and configured by the 'AUTO_BACKUP' maintenance policy XML..The policy XML file does not allow to specify options to enable bac...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0

Add SORTDATA NO, RECLUSTER NO capability to generated reorgs for PDC PBR

PBRs having pending data change can be quite large resulting in a lot of temp storage needed for sorting data. Since the reorg is at TS level, this can be quite large for tables with huge CARDF. The following keywords should be able to be selected...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

allow CREATE FUNCTION with RETURNS TABLE to use SQLPL

Today (in V12 <and maybe earlier>) it is possible CREATE FUNCTION using SQLPL and RETURN a value (of any data type). This is pretty cool.. and powerful. This is useful to perform complex SQLPL operations inside the UDF (LANGUAGE SQL). For ex...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration