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DataStage: support RFC4180

request RFC4180 support in "Sequential File Stage" or "File Connector" http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt Case:TS000994774RTC 96743
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add Search & Replace for Data Modules

Users will need to be able to search and replace expressions in data modules. Currently, not every ID change is automatically adapting its dependencies, causing errors in the data module. Now, we need to one by one adapt all depending expressions,...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reconcile - Intercompany Profit Report also for companies

The report "Reconcile - Intercompany Profit" is just available for groups. Would it be possible to add it also for companies so as for the report "Reconcile - Intercompany Balances"?
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Intercompany report at a group level in one single sheet only instead of multiple worksheets

The report extracted from Report>Intercompany Accounts>Group, is coming for individual companies in separate sheets, even when the report has been extracted at group level, Kindly let us know if the said sheets can be combined and the interc...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Lock data partition

Currently it is merely possible to lock a complete table by means of the "lock table" statement. However, for range partitioned tables, it would be beneficial to be able to lock a specific data partition. That is, a statement like: “lock data pa...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

End_User "DisplayName" Variable

We currently use $END_USER$ in a WF Action. This variable prints out the User Name for a user, which is typically a User ID for employees. It would be great to have a variable that prints out a corresponding Display name or email address vs the Us...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Optim max parallel threads

OPTIM currently restricts the number of parallel threads to 48 max. If we consider that a mirror instance gets created for each request, we are limited to 24 processes. To give an idea, we have 8 applications that move data for each iteration. An ...
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Future consideration

Period 13 addition needed to company structure for FAP publish

The FAP client is currently restricted to 12 periods when defining company structures to publish and does not cater for groups reporting over 13 periods. The message presented by the FAP Client is "End period must have a valid month. Last two digi...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Query Studio Support for DataModules

Query Studio is the self-service tool used by all our end users. Currently QS does not support data modules. With Data Modules becoming so popular, it is important they be supported by QS, otherwise the usage of DataModules will be very limited.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Forecasting not available with Package included in Data Module

Forecasting is being used on a visualization from a relational source only. The data module contains relational tables and a package. The issue is the forecast does not work unless we remove the package from the data module. However, the package i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release