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Launch Report Studio through URL along with embedded package to use

Unable to launch Report Studio with an embedded package, which we were able to do in Cognos 10.2.2. Clients are given the ability to create their own reports by defining profile and package (restrctive) in the URL to launch Report Studio. We do no...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Information security application that allows the obfuscation of sensitive information for other users

When importing and working with information about objects, processes, and clients, many of my OpenPages clients have suggested to me that there may be an improvement in terms of security, and that, as an auditable information management tool, it s...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 1 Under review

Sorting Capability in Open Manta Designer

When users import an Entity from Manta Flow Viewer / Repository through Open Manta Designer (OMD), we have noticed that the Columns order as it is available in the Repository is being jumbled in OMD Left Pane of the Canvas. This is leading to a lo...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Search capability in Open Manta Designer

We have noticed that the users leveraging Open Manta Designer (OMD) are experiencing hard time in finding a Column_Name from an Entity with several attributes which is imported to Canvas. This is leading to a bad user experience when they intend t...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

Prevent copying of data modules

We want to allow a user to use a data module in Reporting perspective but he should not be able to copy the data module. On the copied data module the user is the owner and has full permissions. It is not possible to prevent copying of data module...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Create a "RUNSTATS Check" report similar to the REORGCHK

Although there is an Automated RUNSTATS, some people prefer to execute RUNSTATS manually. Having some ability to run a report that "Recommends" that a table should have a RUNSTATS performed would assist in making decisions. with thousands of table...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

LOAD / ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE COPY YES and LOB improvements

In an OLTP / TSA HADR environment .. When using the COPY YES on ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE it uses LOAD under the covers. When LOBs are involved howere it writes out the full buffer 64k up to several 100k is written out per column/per row to a file which is...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Tolerance for alter table add/drop column for Oracle

We use table -> table replication. If there is a common alter table add column change the replication goes down and we have to update source / target table definition, stopp all subscriptions, have to set a bookmark and after that we are able t...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Drill through from Report to Dashboard

It would be good if we could drill through from a report to a Dashboard. If people from the business are seeing an exception, on a predefined report, that needs further analyses they should be able to pass prompts trough to a dashboard where they ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Inherit data security in datasets from packages and data modules based on data connections

When a data set is created based on a data module or package, the data security access rights of the originator (package/data source or datamodule/data source) are not inherited. Therefore carefully set data access on dataconnection and package le...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration