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add server group assignment to Cube Stop and Start job tasks

We currently have 25 dynamic cubes over 4 server groups. A cube will reside in a cluster of dispatchers assigned to a server group. We need a way to restart cubes without having users queries run against a cube that is starting
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Support for adding/adjusting dates by workdays

Our Deloitte Sense solution based on the ORM, have functionality to schedule performance of a control. The schedule will use offset days to add og substract days to the end of a control monitoring period. For example, for controls covering the mon...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 4 Future consideration

parallel insert into row organized table

parallel insert is only supported on Column organized table. insert into row_table select * from souce_table is very slow
11 months ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Drill Through from PA report to relational report passed the caption or member description

When drilling through from a dimensional report (PA/TM1) to a relational report, the business key is always passed as a parameter. (Regardless of what is stored in the DrillThrough definition). The problem does not occur if "Full interactivity" is...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Extension Output Node for Native Python with Graph Output tab like R and Python for Spark

We would like to create a graph in an Extension Output Node using Native Python libraries such as matplotlib or seaborn. Currently, when we connect to the Modeler Server from the Modeler Client and run the node, the graph is not output and the str...
about 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Uniquely timestamp .zip backups of Content Store database

I would like to suggest adding the ability to uniquely name or timestamp the .zip backups of the Content Store database, so that they don't get overwritten every time a new backup is created. Right now it appears that when you set up a schedule fo...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Calculation Function: Dedup or non-invasive REMOVE for lists

When trying to write out a function, we keep running into a situation as we get deeper into the hierarchy, and information is pulled from ancestors we keep having occasional duplicate values that might form a list. There are no functions or method...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 3 Future consideration

My Activities & Schedules

in 24X7 world and role/group based security, My Activities & Schedules functionality is missing for groups. If Person1 & person2 belong to groupA in cognos security(Namespace). They should be able to see Activities & schedules of group...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Create Audit data module together with Audit sample reports in the same way as exist for the Audit package.

In our self service environment we do not have framework manager installed. We need to connect some user access tables to the audit model. We could create an Audit data module our selves but then if IBM does any changes to the audit model () we ha...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

External Tables support on Windows

I went to use this marvelous feature on windows.. and for my surprise external tables are not implemented for this platform :-( (v11.5) Why ? Please, add support for external tables usage on windows hosts as well .
over 3 years ago in Db2 2 Future consideration