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Data Module Navigation Paths can't be applied in a common data module and pulled into another data module

If you have a data module with common tables in it, i.e. date and locations. The folders, sorting and calculations do get pulled forward. If you want a navigation path it must be added into the data module you are adding the common data module to
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Data Table with interactive features of List (i.e. sort by column)

We would like to use the new data table, that is available since 11.1.6 in our reports. But we are missing the interactive features, that are available for the Lists in reports. Especially the function to sort by any column is often used and needed.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Dashboards on Framework models that have prompts

Dashboards don't work with framework models that have prompts. We use a prompt in the model because the database has a slowly changing dimension. Without the prompt the user gets duplicate records and way too much data. Our workaround is to build ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow calculated fields to be editable

Hi Team, We are moving triggers to calculations and we have triggers that set the fields and still allows the users to update it. WE need calculated fields to be editable to work on this migration. Raising this RFE to allow calculated fields to be...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 2 Future consideration

Use AI to provide a summary of text fields

databases provide limited capability for aggregating text - Min / Max / Count is about it. But AI is demonstrating how it can provide a summary from a lot of text input. We could use AI to provide a text summary. For example, we could have a produ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Native Connector for accessing data with Delta on S3 in DataStage Classic

We are building an Open Lakehouse with the data stored with Delta in S3 Storage. Watsonx.data uses the same Open Lakehouse approaches, but is using Iceberg instead of Delta. DataStage as an ETL tool should support a wide range of different technol...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 1

Ability to change some system fields

When the client imports historical records coming from an external system they do not want to loose accountability and timing, so they need to override the following field values, either by FastMap (or by API): System Fields.Created By ; System Fi...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Not under consideration

Fitting the grid to page width in a book (PAW 2.0.58) even when plan sidebar and properties are hidden

Hello, I create a book with 1 grid and with those properties : Layout positioning = Relative Preset = Screen 16:9 Fit page = Yes When I hide the Plan sidebar and the properties bar, the grid is not fitted on all the width of the page. I do not hav...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Is a defect

Rearchitect the colgroup processing to be more granular using multiple sorts as opposed to a single sort or more intelligently avoid the colgroup sort altogether (when possible)

Looking at the job output you sent in, we can see that there are 18 colgroups specified. Based on the current design, we have a single sort for colgroup(s). There are 184310123 rows unloaded The no. of the rows passed to the single dstats s...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Need to able to prompt/migrate Virtual tables created from lower environment like TEST to Higher PROD

Problem Statement : Currently we don't have option to prompt/migrate Virtual tables created from lower environment like TEST to Higher PROD. Pain Points : Developers need develop in multiple environments.
10 months ago in Watson Query 1 Planned for future release