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IWA: Need support for SQL function INSTR(), i.e., in-string

Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) does not support the SQL function INSTR(), which allows us to search a substring within a string, and gets the location or character position of that substring inside the string. Informix does support substring...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

XML Node cannot handle multiple values for a XML element

XML data source picks up the first value for an XML element with multiple values. All other values for the same XML element are ignored. When I use the XPath expression, the fields having multiple value is dropped, and takes on a NULL value. While...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Remove "obvious" deficiency in SSM scheduling when there are more than 10K open session #

When the Open Session number exceeds IBM's baseline of 10K, we can see Symphony SSM scheduling has an obvious "deficiency": Running task # starts to become much lower than the allocated slots to SSM bouncing between even 0 and very low; SSM busy o...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Planned for future release

drill down on map visualization

I want to analyze a single report by looking at the map visualization at multiple levels.I currently don't have a workaround and have no choice but to put multiple maps in the report. This method is very verbose and does not perform well.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW selector widget widget should be enabled to reflect a sorted row dimension of a PAW table

If a PAW table column has been sorted (e.g. ascending by values), it is currently not possible to drag the row dimension to the canvas in order to get a a selector widget with a sorted list of members by values
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide a Tab prompt that can be used in the Prompt Page

The new Tab control provided in a newer release can only be used in the Report Page Targeted to Report Studio
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

MOVETB feature (FL 508) with DROP tablespace option enabled

The MOVETB option(with FL 508) has a shortcoming of not providing an option of DROP tablespace for the one which has moved ALL the tables from the source tablespace. Currently, we are forced to DROP the source TS separately outside of the generate...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Automatic Archive Log Pruning when Non-Db2 Snapshots are used

Db2 on Cloud Pak for Data, OpenShift, k8s (a.k.a Db2U) primarily relies on k8s or Velero Volume Snapshots. However, Log archiving is enabled by default in Db2U. Therefore, even when automatic log pruning is enabled, since the backup happens outsid...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

When grid values are shown as percentages. Compute variances by subtracting the percentage rather than underlying number.

We would like to be able to use the base functionality of showing values of a cube view as percentages and subsequently correctly calculate a variance between those percentages.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Performance issues when trying to open menu-window by right clicking

We noticed that trying to open the menu-window by right clicking for example on the table shown in attached pictures, the system takes a long time to show the menu-window. Looking for the root cause, during our tests we monitored the performances ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration