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When a Benchmark job fails It would be nice to see the bsub used to submit the job

We can manually construct the actual bsub, but it would be nice to be able to cut and paste it when editing the Benchmark job so we can test that it actually will work. In one case we were getting "Queue Permission Errors" and it having that bsub ...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Export Job should allow for customization for sorting of data by attribute

When exporting the file customization on order in which the data is sorted would be useful for many purposes. Once example is sorting by oldest to newest so that loading the file into another environment allows transactions to be loaded in chronol...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Macro to get user groups and or roles in cognos or ad

For the moment in reporting and fm there are only macro that are able to get security information of the user logged in. Example:CSVIdentityNameList(). I would like to have a macro that shows roles and groups (at least inside cognos namespace)...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Self reference !ThisCube name in rule file

Create !ThisCube as reserved word in TM1 for rule file that works as a self reference to the cube name the rule file is created for. The result would be that the rule file can be distributed without need of manual modification. When working with m...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add a way to pre-encrypt db2 user password before adding it in response file to do db2 silent install.

We are OEM customer to provider our user Db2+Cognos installation, we're using db2 silent install with a response file, for now, there is no way (no tools, no command) to encrypt a plain db2 user password so that we can add this encrypted password ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade / Security 0 Not under consideration

Showing sender Full name instead of email address when cognos report is scheduled to email report

Hi, When we scheduled a report and select the option "send by email”, Report is delivered to our inbox with full email address instead of its name, for example if I schedule a report it will come to my inbox with email address AB_CD@ssga.com , o...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Selection capabilities in PAW Modeller

I am finding the object tree in PAW Modeler difficult to use. It seems to have re-implemented some of the issues in Perspectives. What I would suggest is that instead of one continuous tree showing all types of objects, cubes, dimensions, etc, tha...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

PIVOT/UNPIVOT functions in DB2 for z/OS

Currently, the DB2 for z/OS SQL does not support any functions for PIVOTING / UNPIVOTING data. This results in extremely complex SQL whenever a matrxi/cross tab report is required. Such reports are very common in open systems databases.
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

User Membership Summary

It would be of tremendous benefit to be able to see, for an object of type user, role or group, a summary of all the roles and groups to which the object belongs. It actually seems pretty odd that this functionality apparently does not exist out o...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to select a Contribution Version for Control table E705 (Indirect Minority)

In the Control table E700 (Direct Minority) it is possible to select a Contribution Version but for the table E705 (Indirect Minority) it is NOT possible to select a Contribution version. It is only possible to select a Closing Version. This is re...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration