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Use S3 for externalization of outputs

Our content stores (currently DB2) are growing through more and bigger outputs from reports although we have a rigid housekeeping. But in any case, we are limited to a certain content store size. And database storage is very expensive. File extern...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Sum row in PAfE

A totals line is desired in the exploration in PAfE. Currently, only totals columns are possible.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

In Cognos Administration, add an additional entry called 'Subscriptions'

In the Administration Console, Status tab, add an additional entry (for example, below Calendars) called 'Subscriptions'. Display the list of reports with subscriptions (like thecalendars).In the properties of a report, provide the following infor...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Transparent HEX color for PAW color palette

On the 'line and column' chart in PAW, due to chart limitation, we cannot hide the first line as that corresponds to the first column values too. So the users have requested if we can at least make that line transparent on the chart. Is there any ...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

IBM Planning Analytics Workspace: Modify View Title format

There is no option to modify view title in PAW. Following options would be necessary at least: font style, font size, font color, background color
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Support for database images in Cognos Reports

Our oracle database tables include images stored as BLOB or VARBINARY datatypes. We would like to show these images in a Cognos List Report, to be displayed with rest of data. This functionality needed by multiple county departments.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Modules as source in transformer

Unable to use a data module or a report created using a data module as a source in transformer. Do not see a option to pick data module while adding a source into a new transformer model.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Return information about a failed Lock-Escalation to the application

When a Lock-Escalation occurs it is documented by message DSNI031I (Lock Escalation has occurred) in the Db2-Master-Adressspace. But when a Lock-Escalation fails there is no documentation for this, instead it comes to a Timeout or Deadlock from a ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Model release management for batch and web-service scoring

In CP4D analytics project, there is no model release management framework like SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services (CaDS). We need, 1. LEARNING - Running batch script for model re-training at some intervals(weekly or monthly), and save new ...
about 5 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Planned for future release

Add session-level reset for monitoring metrics in the MON_GET* table functions

There is no way to reset the metrics reported in the MON_GET* table functions. Please add functionality for resetting these at the session level, much like "RESET MONITOR" does for snapshot monitoring. Yes, there are a dozen ways to code this your...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Not under consideration