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Implement an option to read DB credentials from AWS Secret Manager rather than embedding a signon in Cognos Analytics.

Centralised secrets management lowers administration overhead - being able to integrate with a standard secrets repository and leverage those security factors would reduce maintenance within Cognos Analytics.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Create a way to prevent a job with an SLA from using another SLA's hosts/slots/memory if the other SLA is under-committed

LSF hosts come and go, and when you create an allocation that uses exact numbers, there are times when a Pool can be over and under committed. In the case of an under-committed pool today, consumers from other pools can leverage free slots from th...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

display currently opened objects next to each other in 11.2.0

Now all currently opened objects are displayed one below the other. Is would be useful, to display them one next to each other, at least the latest of them. The benefit would be, that they could be reached then within 1 click.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Validate the prompt default selections and report views saved parameters on report run time for planning analytics packages

When you use planing analytcs as data source and package in reports, member unique names (MUN) are the identifier for PAL elements in reports. For treeprompts there is a default value which will be saved in MUN format. Also when you create report ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

CA 11.2 Being able to reduce the Content header to show more data

In Cognos 11.2 when users change to the Content view, they complain that the header part uses too much space leaving only about half the screen for the data, if there are more than 5 objects, it is necessary to scroll down looking for those not sh...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Support filtering on columns with encoding

Filtering in subscription does not work if target encoding is involved. We need this feature to be able to filtering on the source system to reduce the replicated data volumn. Otherwise many records have to be processed by IIDR to the target syste...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Have GEN and DDL generate Implicit objects but have them commented out for future use if needed

A Case was opened with IBM for GOC batch. Support could never recreate it using the DDL which was provided. It was later found out that this DB had implicit objects. The implicit objects in the DDL member provided were never generated. I am purpos...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Virtual SQL Tables in Data Rules

We use these for a variety of purposes and losing these forces us to us data refinery to cover similar use cases. This has several downsides, in particular that doing subsetting in a query is significantly more efficient than replicating the data....
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Please add the elements to 'LAST_REQUEST_TYPE' in the MON_GET_CONNECTION/MON_GET_UNIT_OF_WORK table function.

Please add the values from the following columns to 'LAST_REQUEST_TYPE' in the MON_GET_CONNECTION/MON_GET_UNIT_OF_WORK table function. (Please match the value of the STMT_OPERATION column in SYSIBMADM.SNAPSTMT/SNAP_GET_STMT) CALL EXECUTE_IMMEDIA...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 3 Future consideration

Please add the missing SNAPSTMT/SNAP_GET_STMT columns to MON_GET_ACTIVITY.

1.SNAPSTMT administrative view/SNAP_GET_STMT table function is said to be replaced by MON_GET_ACTIVITY table function, but I would like to add the following columns because MON_GET_ACTIVITY does not have them. AGENT_ID STMT_TYPE STMT_OPERATION DEG...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 3 Future consideration