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Filters on Schedule list

We can see the list of schedules by user, status and priority but having the option to look at schedules with a filter on the TRIGGER name would be really useful. It could just be a free text where "starts with" or "contains" would be the options....
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Need Pull down for Attribute values in filters. (Like you have pull down for levels)

Need Pull down option for Attribute values in filters. You can select Attribute for filtering. But you do not get presented with a list of choices. ((Like you have pull down for levels). Easy and useful enhancement
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Prevent modification of historical Investment register entries

Users are currently allowed to edit any Investment Register entries, regardless of if they are in a historically closed accounting period. This can cause issues when trying to re-run consolidation for previous periods.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Automating process that every steps are performed when a FAP synch is required

Hi Team, We have faced issue with sync in Past between the FAP and Controller databases where IBM need to manually go ahead IBM executed a sync between the FAP and Controller databases. Can we automating this process so that every steps are perfor...
12 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Relative Aliases for Forecasting

We are using the Basline Forecast to produce a 17 week production forecast. Every 3 weeks we re-forecast the 17 week period after reloading historical actuals. To minimize the maintenance each time we run the forecast, we have aliases on our week ...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Possibility to execute STARTQ command with "CAPTUREUPTO" option

In high workload environments it would be very useful to let QCapture work on a STARTQ command with predefined end. Currently this can be done by a STARTQ command and after the SendQ is active a subsequent STOPQ with captureupto.But if for some re...
12 months ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Future consideration

Flag when a deployment has been processed in the dropbox and is ready for use

When a new deployment file is loaded to the CAoC SFTP dropbox there appears to be a delay while it is moved to the system for deployment. Our current automation waits 15 minutes after upload before triggering the deployment job on production. A fl...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Upgrade log4j jar file in DVM JDBC driver

The Scenario : Using the latest DVM JDBC Driver, users issue an import command on Apache Sqoop to do a parquet file conversion. The Problem: The error “java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'org.apache.logging.log4j.Level org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionCon...
12 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Evolved dictionary

Affected Product: Db2WoC Evolved dictionary - dictionaries evolve automatically to better quality and data be recompressed without user intervention. GEICO and some other customers like Bank of America (BofA) have been requesting this feature for ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Building better quality dictionaries while doing CTAS in Warehouse SaaS / CP4D SaaS

Product affected: Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Feature affected : CTAS is a Db2 statement - CREATE TABLE AS functionality (CTA) Overview GEICO sees very bad compression as compared to Netezza. Its been observed that currently CTAS uses only the first pa...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration