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Add Module Source To Properties Of Module

Instead of having to edit the module and drill into the module tree to find the data server(s) the module is based on, add this to the Properties of the module.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for application-period temporal tables defined as CTE

Support for application-period temporal tables in CTEs. To be able to join Temporal Tables and temporal CTEs with a FOR BUSINESS_TIME clause.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Enable "Save as Report View" option on prompt page

The various toolbar option at the top right corner of the Cognos Viewer output page can only be utilized for the HTML format type reports. For the Excel and PDF format report as they are directly downloaded or opened without any output Cognos View...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CSDK support for static links under the latest GCC releases

Currently the only way to produce a statically linked utility using ESQL/C is to compile and link with a GCC release earlier than 5.5. The latest is now v13. Messages look like this: art@Elbereth : ~/GoogleDrive/Latest $ esql -static -o dbstruct d...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 4 Future consideration

MDM CE 11.6 Rich Search on ColArea step add option for All items on step

We have MDM CE 11.6 FP 9 IF 3.When using a Rich Search on a ColArea step there're 3 options to search for:1) Items reserved by my user2) Items reserved by other user3) Item not reserved by anyoneWe would like to have an option to search for All it...
almost 6 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

dynamic report output caching

DQM in combination with dynamic cubes brings exceptional caching capabilities. One aspect of the report execution process which is not cached in this system is the rendering of report spec and XML. In order to determine if the query can consume a ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

RUNSTATS Partition Pageset Processing

DB2 RUNSTATS process opens all pagesets for all partitions and all indexes up front and keeps them open during the life of the utility.Could there be changes made so RUNSTATS utility open pagesets and releases pagesets when needed?
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

We need a connector from Db2 zOS to AWS DynamoDB, please, with sugar!

There is no straightforward way to use IIDR to replicate from Db2 zOS to DynamoDB on AWS. I think many customers could benefit from this additional capability.
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Add function to translate TM1/PA or Excel serial date numbers to datetime values

Currently, there is no built-in function within Cognos Analytics that allows for converting Excel or TM1 serial date numbers to their respective datetime values.We can partially emulate it if we're just using dates by using the _add_days function ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Make serial date translation consistent between cell formatting and rule/TI functions

By default (UseExcelSerialDate=F): Formatting a numeric element as a date uses a Microsoft Excel serial date (Jan 1, 1900 as a base date) Rule and TI functions to convert a serial number to a date uses legacy TM1 serial dates (Jan 1, 1960 as a bas...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration