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Disable gridlines in Cognos for Excel exports of reports/dashboards

Users desire that Excel exports of reports/dashboards to look as much as possible as in Cognos. For this, the gridlines in Excel should be disabled. Currently, there is no option in Cognos for disabling the gridlines, which means that each individ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Ability to Document Report within Report Studio

The ability to add text documentation to a report at different object levels and the ability to display it to the developer.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Avoid Reorg Abends by improving estimation of average row length

Today, for estimating the average row length being passed to sort, REORG gets that from catalog statistics with either AVGROWLEN or COMPRESSRATIO. The reason RTS stats is not used, is because RTS only contains the compressed data size.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

I would like to force the use of the "DEFER" option on the creation of an index (using Zparm to make it optional).

We have DBAs that at times (accidently) run a "CREATE INDEX" and fail to include the "DEFER" option. This is rather easy to do because the reverse engineering tools fail to create syntax with the "DEFER" option. The creation of indexes can be very...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Show project asset folders in the code snippet GUI

When I use the Beta Folders feature to create folder hierarchies in my project assets, these folders are not displayed in the code snippets data import GUI in Jupyter Notebook. Without consistency in the view of the organization of assets in my pr...

Reference data sets - product only supports a 2-tier hierarchy. Make it 3-tier for reference files

Having a 3-tier hierarchy for certain columns will help us to have different values/standards across domains even though the few codes and values are same between domains we want to have it's own group.
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

UI option to export the Enrichment from Cloud Pak

Exporting the enrichment results to a excel/csv will help business and other teams to review the results and compare them against each other along with confidence level on assigning/suggesting the business terms, classifications, data classes and ...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Using Excel-Addin Exporting results of Metadata Enrichment to Excel - Currently the spreadsheet export option does not offer all the information seen in the UI for the MDE job, for example Confidence values are not exported.

Excel Add-in: Having the confidence in the spreadsheet will help us/business make decisions easily on assigned/suggested business terms, data classes, classifications.
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

For CDC to support LDAP Channel Binding for end user authenticaion

Using Enble the LDAP Channel binding will help us to end user authention in IBM CDC and its proves more secure in centralized authentication mechanism.
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Native printing of TI and rules code

I propose to add an print option to the code editor of TI processes and rules. Currently it is not possible and the work-arounds are not satisfactory. In order to print TI or rules codes it has to be either: 1. copied to external programs OR 2. se...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration