IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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Reduce size of LOAD COPY dataset for tables with LOBs and XML

A LOAD COPY where the table being acted on has one or more LOB columns is much larger than the original data / final table size / post load backup. From investigation it is based on the pagesize and extentsize of the underlying tablespace. This pr...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Log something meaningful from the python symphony calls when something is missing

When an unexperienced symphony python developer trying to connect symphony via his python script (without knowing that he did not call function conn.create_session(sca) before making the connection call... the python script core dumped without giv...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Option live query mode and cache

For most reports it's not relevant, the data is not realtime. For those reports I want to cache the data (within the report) for performance reasons. Whan i can choose a render option for a report Live or Cache (with a cache frequenty) Cognos will...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Add type of execution in activities view

Currently there is no easy way to differentiate between different kind of executions in Cognos in activities view and my schedules and subscriptions view. There are the following types of executions: page preview run from Report Authoring run ad h...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report retains report options from session to session

Report options - Automatic group and summary behavior for lists remaining off, but the Delete unreferenced query objects and Enable guided report layout get turned back on after closing session. Visual Aids - Show Hidden Objects turns off after ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Smart Document Understanding to produce a readable PDF from original scanned PDF

In solutions where text archives are digitized to become searchable in Watson Discovery, Smart Document Understanding is a promising new feature. However, it does not by side effect produce a searchable (text-based) PDF when OCRing a scanned PDF. ...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Upgrade Bouncy Castle java library for SSL certificate avec with Extension Key Usage Critical

The library Bouncy Castle use into Cognos Analytics 11.0.8 don't support certificats with Extension Key Usage flag as Critical (Ex: TLS Web Authentification).
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Log parameter values earlier

System: Cognos Analytics 11Actor: administrator investigating report and query problemsDescription: Cognos logs parameter values AFTER the query has completed. This is too late for troubleshooting.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Secure Gateway token expiration notification

When you define a secure gateway, you need to generate a token which is used on the server where you install the gateway. This token as an expiration date of max 365 days. When the expiration date is nearly there, an icon in the administration pan...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

SAML support for Apache Webserver and REMOTE_USER variable

In previous versions of Cognos (8.x, 10.x) we populated the environment variable REMOTE_USER in Apache webserver using SAML for SSO. IBM support indicates that this is not supported in Cognos Analytics 11.x. We want to be able to continue to use S...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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