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Default 'Reveal editable fields' during stage "Perform Self-Assessment"

Explore is the toggle switch "Reveal editable fields" could be automatically switched on upon a Control Owner opening a control which is in the stage "Perform Self-Assessment". This will allow for easier identification of a Control Owner how / whe...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Solution for Awkward-Looking Queries in Views

When we create a view using a sensible-looking query, the database converts it into a version that has lots of extra parentheses and odd-looking table names. Below is an example of one of these converted queries. This is a relatively simple exampl...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 - Use Data Modules as Source for Dynamic Cubes

Would like the ability to use Data Modules as a meta-data source for Dynanic Cube Designer.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict number of parallel batch reports per User or Tenant

It should be possible to restrict the number of batch reports run in parallel by a user and/or in a multi-tenant environment per tenant. This could be general parameters for the batch report service like "Number of parallel processes per user" or ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Context based slicing for given variable for both include and working storage  and bulk slicing for these.

This is a functionality already in consideration by product management for Refactoring Assistant.
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Configurable options for changing the LDAP import settings.

Per IBM the CP4D user job replaces openpages first name with full name. Full name is imported to openpages from “Name” tab of CP4D – which are LDAP names imported from LDAP server. Below are the current LDAP attribute mapping, can you let us know ...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas 2 Under review

Folder in Dynamic Cube dimensions

When modeling Dynamic Cubes with Cognos Cube Designer, it would be very usefull to group Dimensions assigned to Cubes into Folders.As a reference, we would need the same way available in "Measure modeling", where we can group measures into "measur...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reporting on Technical Metadata (Database Columns [Information Assets AND Catalog Assets], Assigned Stewards, Mapped Business Terms, and Who Performed the Enrichment)

The users of CP4D would like the CP4D Reporting Database to report on the technical metadata assets, i.e. database columns, assigned stewards to database columns, mapped business terms to database columns, and who performed the mapping of the busi...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Bring back option to change object owner

In Cognos 10, to change the owner of an object there was a link underneath the owner name in the report properties that would allow you to take ownership of a report. This option seems to have gone away and there now appears to be no way to change...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Replication support for HPSS feature

Technical Problem Assume there is a partitioned tablespace and some parts are archived via HPSS. Therefore, there are archived and non-archived partitions. Db2 transparent archive is not the case in this scenario. There is only one table with PBR ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration