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When restoring content with "CM.DEPLOYMENTINCLUDECONFIGURATION=True", offer an option to merge the configration parameters from the old to new dispatcher.

It is not always possible to deploy content to servers with identically-named hosts. Currently, all of the configurations (including tuning settings and advanced parameters at the dispatcher and service levels) are deployed into the "old" dispatch...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Possibility for user to select storing dataset as parquet-file or as db2 dataset.

We are having issues with db2 datasets (Some datasets originally stored as parquet files can not be stored as db2 datasets) while evaluating this new feature. In meantime users can not create new datasets to production.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Create a screen for administrators that shows users currently logged in

There are many occasions where we wish we had a screen to see a list of users currently logged into the system. For example, we may consider restarting an instance and we want to notify only those users currently logged in.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration
103 VOTE

Modify the default image path

There isn't any way through which customers can safely modify the default image path in Cognos BI server
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to show logged in users

Idea added by for Wells Fargo: I am trying to find out if there is a way to determine if there are any active Zowe(2.15)/UMS(PTF6) users signed in before shutting down the mainframe task. I did look around the UI and don't see anything? If there i...
8 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Support and document AT-TLS for all ports

The IBM documentation to establish AT-TLS protected connections for CQM does not cover all connections/ports. It only documents part of it. There is only an 'unofficial' blog post how one can achieve it but not in the IBM documentation. Hence it s...
12 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

PAfE DIMNM performance improvement

Perspectives models are unusable in PAfE due to poor performance of DIMNM function as it is currently implemented: http://server:port/api/v1/Dimensions%28%27dimension%27%29/DefaultHierarchy/Members?$filter=Element/Index%20eq%20201 - 12.36secs My p...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Email notification when job or tasks within job fail

We make use of datasets and have a job to schedule the refresh for these datasets every night. Sometimes the refresh fails for some reason. At this moment we don't get any notification that something went wrong. We would like to be able to configu...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Please increase size of LAST_FAILURE_REASON column in Task Attributes table.

The SSM and SIM error log is saved in LAST_FAILURE_REASON column of Task Attributes table. It is set to 2048 chars currently. However, the error message is much longer than 2048 chars. So we can't see the whole error message in Task Attributes tab...
2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Submitted

Switch CAE Server in Sysplex from Hot Stand By to Active while running

Hello IBM, we have the Db2 Query monitor in an active passive configuration in a Syplex. During Maintenance we begin the with the secondary side of the plex were the hot stand by instance of the Query Monitor is running. After the maintenance we w...
2 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration