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Support KAIO in cooked files using 4k formated disk for dbspaces with page size multiple of 4

Currently, filesystem on hard disk with 4k sector size disables usage of KAIO feature. Request is to allow dbspaces with pages multiple of sector size (4k, 8k, 12k and 16k) to be able to use KAIO. For sure, dbspcaces with other page sizes should r...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Unload to file should have option that prevents over writing of an existing file

A customer writes some SQL that captures the pre-data to an unload file and then does the updates/deletes etc. If the SQL is successful and inadvertently run again the initial pre-data will be lost.
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Future consideration

“Select & Search prompt” is not available when using a Data Module source

When creating a new report based on a Data Module, users lose the Select and Search prompt, which is available in a Framework Manager package source. Please refer to the attached which also contains other enhancement requests.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0

Functions to transform DB2 XML to JSON data and the other way around

if you have a table with a XML column it will be nice to be able to export the xml part of the data in a JSON format it will also be nice to be able to update the XML data with input in JSON format.
3 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Under review

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...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Provision of remote repositories for consumption of external APIs/dependencies (.jars)

We are using the management-console-api (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/idr/11.4.0?topic=replication-management-console-api) to automate some processes that are currently running manually. We work with CI/CD mats that resolve dependencies through art...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration

Planning Analytics for Excel: Ability to minimize/maximize the Viewer independently

When you open Viewer in Planning Analytics for Excel, the viewer is connected to this Excel session only. When you minimize Excel, you also minimize the Viewer window and you are unable to access it without maximizing Excel. Same problem happens w...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Support for database images in Cognos Reports

Our oracle database tables include images stored as BLOB or VARBINARY datatypes. We would like to show these images in a Cognos List Report, to be displayed with rest of data. This functionality needed by multiple county departments.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Recommend/evaluate indexes – more information for each index

This is a point for tuning with indexes -> Tuning with indexes is still very common and useful. While using recommend and evaluate indexes it is possible to investigate each recommended index by updating USE_INDEX column in the table ADVISE_IND...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to "Run Once" list of schedules under IBM Cognos Administration -> Schedules and My Schedules and Subscriptions screens

Why is it useful? Currently, in-order to run any enabled schedule once, administrators need to go into each schedule "Run the schedule once..." option. It is very time consuming run each schedule manually if there's a need to run list of schedules...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration