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Handling unsupported characters

Suppose an application tries to insert a character that is not supported by DB_LOCALE. Then instead of throwing an error, a pre-defined character (e.g. an inverted question mark "¿") should be inserted.
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

The Spark job should use the mount_path attribute of the storage volume by default

The volumes.mount_path attribute in the Spark Jobs API is mandatory, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=jobs-spark-api-syntax-parameters-return-codes This should be an optional attribute to make it consistent with the usage o...
about 3 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration

request to pass report xml through form parameter to run report with modified xml

Hi, we are trying to build a form page/url with parameters to run cognos analytics report (cognos 11 report with Interactivity set to Yes) like the way we do in cognos 10. in Cognos 10, we used to post the following parameters to run the report si...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to export report or story to power point

Users are demanding an export to power point so that board presentations can be pre-formatted and downloadable.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add boolean support for Oracle, Postgres and Db2 z/OS

Currently boolean fields are supported on Db2 LUW but not the DBMS's listed above.
about 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Workspace Tab and Widget movement flexibility

When utilizing a Cognos Workspace for building dashboards there should be more flexibility to adjust and organize the functionality of objects. Tabs and all the widgets should be center aligned. The widget refresh icon should be in center of the s...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Block locking for U/D on MDC when LOCKSIZE=BLOCKINSERT

Block locking is done for INSERTs on MDC tables when LOCKSIZE = BLOCKINSERT, which is a great benefit for memory usage, and allow to parallelize treatments for different dimensions. However, this is unsufficient, because treatments do also Update/...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Simple federated query against SQL Server nickname with predicate on partial PK takes 150+ sec vs 0.1 sec against source db

The following query takes a long time when running against SQL Server nickname. See case TS001550410 for more details select *from nn.PAT_ENC_APPT_NOTESwhere PAT_ENC_CSN_ID ='99999999'
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Control the number of concurrent queries inside IDAA by Correlation ID, Connect Type, Connect ID, Authid and/or table name

Allow control of the number of queries running concurrent in IDAA per transaction (Correlation id), connect type, Connect ID, Authid and/or per table. This would provide a better control of IDAA usage by applications so that the most important one...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

In COGNOS Analytics (TITAN) need to be able to set "Can run but not author" at the package and report levels.

In the new version of COGNOS Titan it appears authoring has been combined to a single row. Currently there is a function to restrict by Package what tools can be used. Also editing the system xml we can remove read access to traverse by default. T...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists