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issue DISPLAY BLOCKERS instead of DISPLAY CLAIMERS when DRAIN timeout

Currently when DRAIN fails during REORG, a DISPLAY CLAIMERS is issued. The draw back is there is no "age" information, so user does not know which thread is the blocker, because the claimer could also be waiter.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Create Datasets/Dashboards from an existing Cognos Report

Create a dataset directly from an existing Cognos report and refresh it on a schedule.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Informix Developer Edition MAC OS port for Apple Chipset M1/2

The current and future Informix Development Edition and the Advanced Development Edition should be available under Mac OS apple cpu. The MacBook's are very popular among pupils, students, and IT consultants. Run Informix Server at actual MacBook's...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Online BAR from pureScale to non-purescale

There are many cases that a database on the purescale cluster is needed to move on non-purescale instance. for example,backup, development or DR system . However, oracle does support this.
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / pureScale 0 Future consideration

LSF job query filter on pending jobs without providing pending reasons

For large LSF clusters, the bjobs command takes significant time to gather the pending reasons (-p, -pei, -pe, -pi) making the query much longer than requesting all jobs. Suggest a new bjobs option to filter on pending jobs without supplying the p...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Pass a parameter from a dashboard to dynamically filter the SQL source in the data module

A parameter (e.g. date parameter) created in a report can be passed to the SQL query in the data module. The SQL query just has to use the notation #sq(prompt(['prompt name]','[prompt data type]'))#) to refer to the parameter. Similar functionalit...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

For Reconciliation reports in Cognos,Please group the party vs counterparty information rather than breaking the Party vs Counterparty relationships into multiple sections

Business Users have reported that they are facing issues with the reconciliation reports breaking the party vs counterparty information.
about 2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Needs more information

Enabling the "XLS" option avaialble for reports along with "PDF" and "XLSX".

The user find it more efficient to format the data in XLS format for Cognos Reports.
about 2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Show text size next to Simple String Text fields on Loss Event Entry application

Users who submit Events/Incidents via the Loss Event Entry Application need to provide a description of what caused the event and the field that absorbs this information in OpenPages is a Simple Text field (4000 bytes) only. It would be good if th...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Add the "Set Pack or module option" for Dashboard as it exists for reports

It would be very useful for us if Dashboards could have the same relinking (Pack or Module) option that exists for Reports. Thank you.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted