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Drill Through to Database Table - Excel Export

A Drill-Through in PAW to a database table will open a window where the user can export the data to a CSV file. An English user can open this file with Excel and all columns will end up in the right place. A non-English customer will need to conve...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Correctly calculate measures with time state aggregation rules across multiple cubes.

IBM Cognos 10.2.2, Dynamic Cubes have a data integrity issue whereby they do not correctly compute measures with time state aggregation rules across multiple cubes. A warning is issued in Cube Designer. The consequence is that if business users bu...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Remove the need for NC Drop, handle dead processes / schedules better

Currently, if a bad report is scheduled or something happens to the environment, the NC table can build up as explained by this technote and make schedules slow or send them into pending. To resolve this requires a lengthy process of a) backing up...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Dynamic columns in dynamic reports

Today it is possible to use dynamic reports in Planning Analytics for Excel to create reports with dynamic rows. However it is not possible to also have dynamic columns which I consider to be a major shortcoming, it would be great if this could be...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Aggregate awareness

Scenario: fact table with billions of rows ,reduce the cardinality and utilize a prepared dataset fact query table that has the aggregation. the user drops the items on the visualization and cognos decide which table to use and query . if the deta...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Fix "Import column" stage to allow to properly validate numeric values

Data validation is extremely useful for any enterprise, but this stage is not working for numeric values, although it's the 'expected behaviour'. Validation for other data types already works as expected. But, not being able to properly validate n...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

[PAfE] Application.ScreenUpdating should be restored

Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel enables Application.ScreenUpdating with RefreshBook. It causes significant performance loss with our existing macros. As we have many macros, it is unrealistic to add Application.ScreenUpdating = False in all...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

optimize the interval fragment

when using interval fragment with date or datetime column, the latest fragment is in the last one, so the performance of the Insert will become slow. if Informix can keep the latest fragment as the first fragment, it will improve the performance o...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

change the bufferpool size online

when I add the new dbspace, the page size is 16 k; Informix add a default bufferpool , I forget to create the bufferpool using onparams firstly, later I found it's too small, can't meet the performance requirement, I found I have no method to chan...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Supress metadata check in ODBC connector

The ODBC connector compares the metadata in DataStage with the metadata in the target system. When there is a mismatch in the metadata, warnings are issued in the DataStage Director log.Please add an option, so this check can be disabled for speci...
about 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration