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Allow PAM in OleDB clients (for password mode)

Currently OleDB clients can't connect to PAM enabled ports.We recently allowed PAM connections for DRDA connections if in password mode (APAR IC99560). I'd say there is no reason why OleDB wouldn't work for password mode, just like it was implemen...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Introduce a parametric filter in calculation

When you have to select Input field you can find it in a related obj or in a Preference ... but when you try to filter the related records by an enumerate filed, you can only select one or more “specific value” BUT YOU CAN NOT FILTER record where ...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Local client being compatible for different product versions

The Controller 11 client that is currently downloaded From Controller Web to a user's machine is only compatible to a single product version. For customers with separate production and development environments this will cause a restriction, say de...
9 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Increase the data point limit to allow for more than 32767 data points (INT16_MAX)

Some applications have large amounts of data points, and to display, for example, a year of data, requires more datapoints to be possible. It would be desirable for a higher limit to be available.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

User searches by any word (except the first word) in the MDE asset name, the search returns 'No Results Found'

When searching by any word (except the first word) in the metadata enrichment asset name, the search returns 'No Results Found'. Reproduction: Login to ICP4D => Navigate to Projects => All projects Any Project => Assets tab => Metadata...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

STATUS_CHANGE_TIME Colum doesnt exist in in mon_get views

We are currently working to migrate all our SNAP views to MON_GET views/Functions as SNAP views caused a response spike in our PROD environment recently.We are using STATUS_CHANGE_TIME columns of sysibmadm.applications to check lock waits on the d...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Open cognos analytics notifications for external notifications via API

We would like to post notification from extranal applications to our cognos interface via APIs. We have integrated solution for Cognos and planning analytics with one common portal build in CA11 and we would like to push some PA notifications to t...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom graphs in cyclops/webconsole

As NzPortal no longer supports the new platforms we are forces to switch to the cyclops web console which does not support adding custom graphs which we could do in NzPortal. Adding this functionality shouldn't be a lot of work and would provide f...
over 2 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Future consideration

NUMA aware memory allocations.

In a system with more one NUMA node sometimes best to have all memory allocated on the first NUMA node for performance. E.g. With 2 NUMA nodes with 300Gb each, pin the lowest number CPU VPs pinned to the first NUMA node and allocate all hugepages...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Add quick edit to Grid View

Users really like the new Quick Edit, but want to be able to use it on a Grid view of objects, not just on a grid within a task view. In particular, since the grid view within a task view only shows 10 objects at a time, users have become accustom...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration