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Catalogs should have an alternative screen for showing / presenting Data Assets in a hierarchical way

Client is requesting a more contextual way, so to speak, of showing the Data Assets in the catalogs. The way the Data Assets are presented nowadays is considered loose. They should belong to a certain context. At the very least, there should be a ...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Add/Extend CA REST API endpoint to retrieve groups/roles/capabilities for a specified user

In the current state, there is no endpoint within the Cognos REST API that allows an administrator to query another user's groups/roles/capabilities. Having this available would be extremely useful as we will have the ability to speed up our suppo...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Cloud Environment - Monthly Maintenance - Status Page

If a user attempts to access Planning Analytics Workspace during the monthly maintenance window, the user should be greeted with a friendly informative status message with information about the expected downtime and not simply timeout or get a 404...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to upload Db2 transaction log files to TSM that had been moved manually by DBA

We use Db2 log archiving to TSM servers. No failover archive path has been set yet. Under rare circumstances we faced situations where log archiving to TSM does not work or slows down and the active log path fills up. To prevent disk full situatio...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Callout/Highlight (add to Canvas) to have conditional formating

Callout/highlight (add to canvas) requires conditional formatting (text/ background) to display eg1 Green for positive or Red for Negative, 2 Green, Amber, Red to show the impact Sorry I could not find a name to describe this function in the IBM d...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Expand IFCID 258 to include the last available partition (based on MAXPARTITIONS) of a partitioned table spaces.

IBM already produces IFCID 258 when an extent is taken. Would IBM may consider the expansion into the last available partition to be a noteworthy event or either inform the MAXPARTITION value. So, the percentage of available partitions can be calc...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

MDI is failing in the discovery stage due to a token expiration issue for a large number of schemas.

When an MDI job is running against Google Big Query it processes each schema to discover all of the tables. If the number of tables in the GBQ instance is large enough that the processing of each schema takes long enough that the connection token ...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Sort Order

In Cognos 11.2 onwards, we should be able to sort the content in Team Content/My Content irrespective of the type of the object. Right now, if I sort, it first lists all the folders followed by Package. It should be sorted just like it was in the ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Allow Bufferpool Min_lru_dirty and Max_lru_dirty Threshold values to be altered dynamically

onparams -b can be used to add a new bufferpool and AUTO_LRU_TUNING are available on informix server but first only adds a bufferpool of a new page size and the latter only kicks in if some foreground writes occur on a server which ideally is neve...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

Shutdown and restart gracefully entirely CP4D

Background - Customer is using CP4D 4.8.3 On Premise with OCP 4.14 and Spectrum Container Native Storage Access (CNSA) 5.1.9 and Hyper-V for VMs - They need a procedure tested, supported and published in IBM Docs (or TechNote) to shutdown graceful...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

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