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Allow Creation Date as a 'Due Date' field argument (with offset) for Workflows

Currently if workflow instances are started and stopped (to do required tasks such as workflow version upgrades/releases) the due dates are all reset. Currently you can only use 'Workflow Start Date' which would reset or a field. You cannot lock i...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Save and (restore) access plan for dynamic and Statis SQL

Sometime after maintenance, or index/stats change, certain SQL can pick a bad access path. It would be nice to be able to save access path and force db2 to pick old access path. We just had very painful process after V11 migration. When access pat...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Support IMS Unload file of Refresh

Ongoing project is planning to do initial DB construction using the Refresh function of CCDC to CDC. There are many View definitions in the CCDC, the logical table becomes over 800, and we want to improve the overall throughput . Specifically, we'...
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Annotation-based method with system entities

When configuring intents, why cannot annotate samples with system entities. For example "I want to book an appointment with Dr. John for Fifi on next week" Ideally I would like to annotate "John" as "@sys-person" and "next week as a "@sys-date...
almost 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Add additional retry logic when there is a tape volume that is unavailable

Add additional retry logic to better recover from an I/O error while reading a block from an IMS log when there is a tape volume that is unavailable during change stream connect processing. (1)SalesForce Case TS002782852 - DRISRP - Internal E...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Remove restrictions in visualizations on data item type like measures

to make the visualization definition more flexible and easier for users it would be beneficial to remove the restrictions on item type. Typically there are visualization where you can drag in some part only measures. These restrictions make it com...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Restrict Basic Signon for Internal Use Only

We would like to restrict our Cognos Basic Sign-On page to be available to only internal users (ie. restrict this page to only the internal Network). External users should only be able to login via the Single Sign-On page. We are not able to restr...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel formatting - apply formatting to new data range as it grows in size

Excel formatting - apply formatting to new data range as it grows in size. e.g. If the data range is 2x2 cells and then an action (e.g. stacking dims on rows/ columns or drilling into a consolidation) increases the data range szie, provided the fo...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Max number of nodes for LSF service class

It would be useful to set a minimum value of guaranteed nodes as well as a maximum value in the distribution of an LSF service class
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Longitudinal Tobit analysis

In many epidemiologic longitudinal and rehabilitation studies, the outcome variable has floor or ceiling effects such as the Barthel Index and Stroke Impact Scale (SIS). Although not correct these variables are treated as normally distributed cont...
almost 5 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration