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FOT Indexes to support OR queries

FOT Indexes to support OR queries.
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Fix errors for apdiag on large systems

Multiple times now when running apdiag collect with option "--spus all" we get an error and the logs are not collected. ips/spu_all_logs e13n1 [Fail] (in run step) (108/130) ERROR: Timeout running command (timeout: 1800). Timeout can be increased ...
24 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Support for data type binary for joins in IBM Cognos Analytics data modules and Framework Manager

In relational star schema models it is very common using columns with a hash with type binary(16) for the join condition between dimension table and fact table. The advantages are a well-chosen hash function will almost always generate unique valu...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Optimization profile

Description: This request is to provide an optimization profile that may be applied at the DB layer, i.e., meaning no application code would need to be modified to use the profile, and the profile is configurable to where no instance recycle (star...
8 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Submitted

REST API: return more object details

For the Cognos Analytics REST API to provide the ability to remotely and automatically administer Cognos Analytics, all information about objects must be available through the REST API. Please make detailed items like report specifications, data m...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

'KPI' visualization in PAW as in Cognos Analytics

In PAW there is the possibility to place a single cell as from an exploration on a book and thus highlight top KPIs and provide them with conditional formatting. Unfortunately, the possibilities of this visualization in PAW are limited. The functi...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

More Authentication Support for Content Store with Azure SQL DB

Hi, As more company are moving to cloud, we need more modern method of authentication for content store. Currently for MSSQL, SQL or Windows authentication is supported. In the Azure Entra ID, we need support for authentication with the Managed Id...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Submitted

Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Create hierarchical filter drop down to allow multiple levels of a dimension to appear with arrows to expand and collapse the levels

Right now to show multiple levels of a dimension we have multiple filter drop downs. Each one has to be opened, a value selected, and then widgets updated before it cascades to the other drop downs. We would like to have a drop down where we can h...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Ability to remove / manage environments toward specific roles in a watsonx.ai project

Recently we had a team that utilized GPU runtimes for their notebook runs mistakenly, and this used a great deal of CUH. Looking through the options to build approval processes for expensive runtime environments, there doesn't look to be an abilit...
25 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted