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Formatting Overlay Cube

I have a cube with a "Measure" dimension, which has elements like "Amount", "Variance %", etc. It also has a "Scale" dimension, which has elements like "Raw", "Millions", etc. I'm trying to achieve the following outcome: Amount, Raw = #,##0.000000...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

In PAW there should be the ability to combine data from multiple cubes (from different instances) into one report by sharing the same metadata.

Excel allows for the combining of cube data from different instances into one report but this is not available in Planning and Analytics Workspace. Dashboards and analysis often require data from different cubes (and other data sources) which shar...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Report Queries Page should have a better way of organising queries, for example folders

An enterprise report will often contain many many queries. There will be the query that provides the actual content of the report, this is an important query/queries. But there are often lots of queries that could be thought of as noise - for exam...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Under review

Optimize task execution with task rerun inf in TaskContext

When a Symphony task fails, it is currently re-dispatched and rerun, with each rerun treated as a new execution. The application service code is unaware of whether the task is running for the first time or being retried. We propose including task ...
14 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

In Manta Admin UI - cDB2 connection validation should be successful when user is mapped to a DB Group/Role

Why is it useful? This ensures that required permissions needed by IBM Manta is in place. The scanner for cDB2 will produce desired data lineage for cDB2 database. Who would benefit from it? IBM Manta users. How should it work? In Manta Admin UI -...
14 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Provide native capability to write metrics to a a standard product eg: prometheus

Platform teams wants pipeline metrics to be available to users through standard platforms such as prometheus. While can be worked around and instrumented, it should be out-of the box
14 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Provide out of box logging capability instead of having to resort to Groovy to write to log files

This would allow developers to instrument the pipeline and write key / custom logging to the log file. It could be implemented similar to how we allow creation of rules between stages
14 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Password credentials should not show the password once it has been entered. This is a security risk

Customers do not feel secure if the password entered can be shown back on the screen. It should be visible during entry and then permanently starred (***) out. This is how many other UI based applications behave today. Yes, we could tell customers...
14 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Simplify expression evaluation notation and reference to variables

Currentlywe need a syntax of $ then a set of curly brackets {} and then a value. and for values, its record:value('/<the attribute>'). The above becomes very convoluted and long when you have a case statement of other long expressions. It wo...
14 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Make it easier to achieve advanced data engineering tasks within the UI instead of using Groovy

Currently many advanced tasks requires us to jump out of the standard UI capability and directly into Groovy. It would be worthwhile to consider if these can be done in a UI like framework and still wrapped into a single stage for execution. This ...
14 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted