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Remove "obvious" deficiency in SSM scheduling when there are more than 10K open session #

When the Open Session number exceeds IBM's baseline of 10K, we can see Symphony SSM scheduling has an obvious "deficiency": Running task # starts to become much lower than the allocated slots to SSM bouncing between even 0 and very low; SSM busy o...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Planned for future release

drill down on map visualization

I want to analyze a single report by looking at the map visualization at multiple levels.I currently don't have a workaround and have no choice but to put multiple maps in the report. This method is very verbose and does not perform well.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW selector widget widget should be enabled to reflect a sorted row dimension of a PAW table

If a PAW table column has been sorted (e.g. ascending by values), it is currently not possible to drag the row dimension to the canvas in order to get a a selector widget with a sorted list of members by values
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More functions for REST API to meet citi's business requirement

The idea is that the REST API should have the functions to inquiry Symphony common information but it doesn't have so far. The three commands I listed are just samples. We won't be able to list all of them. Your side should know what inquiry comma...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Planned for future release

Cognos Transformer published group cube default location

When cogtr.exe is used how to set default location for publishing the cube groups. For normal cubes we can determine default folder location to publish the built cubes. But for cube groups we cant determine the default location for saving/publishi...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customize the maximum number of sheets exported by PAW (and exclude hidden sheets)

When integrating a PAX / PAfE sheet in a PAW book, we can go to Export menu and select Excel Snapshot or Excel Slice, but there is a limitation : we cannot export more than 50 sheets, which is easily reached because PAW includes unwanted hidden sh...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

prohibit alter/create tablespace not logged

Performing create/alter tablespace to be not logged might be considered a security problem.A solution for this can be a new ZPARM or a special privilege (in RACF & Db2) that will prohibit anyone from doing so, even SYSADM/DBADM etc. Another "c...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Audit Policy enhancement for Global Temporary Tables

Audit policies are used frequently for us to track for a month the Group IDs read, write, etc of standard Tables of Type P,C,T. We would like be able to use this ability to Audit use of created Global Temporary Tables of Type G as well. This would...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow schedule of specific days of months

Sometimes a report needs to run on specific days of each month that are not necessarily daily, weekly etc. It would be handy to have the ability to select specific days (such as the 18-22 or the 18th, 20th and 25th).
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide updated and more detailed documentation of Cognos BI Audit Log tables and columns

Our client has a specific need to track what end users are receiving emailed report results generated out of Cognos. One way to identify these individuals appears to be by querying the email lists that are logged in the Audit Log database “AGENT...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration