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Allow separate grantable authoriy for REFRESH MQT

The current authorization to issue a REFRESH TABLE on an MQT is the following (this is true up through and including v12): https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPEK_12.0.0/sqlref/src/tpc/db2z_sql_refreshtable.html The privilege set for...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to search email distribution lists for scheduled reports

It would be great if users who scheduled distributed reports could search for email addresses. A recent scenario, we had a student worker who was on a distribution email list, that student left and went to another department. The student still had...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow the full name of columns be displayed in Controller Web

When tables with movement accounts are created and allowed to be used in Controller WEb, it would be required to see full names of the columns of the tables.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

TCR - Insert Item pop-up Comment boxes contents to be passed to the CIF User Exit so we an validate

Please change TCR to pass the Insert Item pop-up Comment boxes contents to the CIF User Exit so we can validate the contents of the Comment boxes, just like we do for the contents of the Custom Attribute boxes. Balancing operator can either use th...
almost 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Not under consideration

Add (designer specifiable?) "Apply" and "Cancel" buttons to slider filter

Slider filters refresh the data as soon as a value is "selected".Usually one needs at least 2 values (lower and higher) before the desired result is obtained, and sometimes even more right / left slides, until the desired resolution is obtained.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Non informative error message for conditional formatting

If I set up conditional formatting for List in Report Studio and then change underlying Query Subject for this List I'll get scary error "RSV-SRV-0040 The report server encountered an internal error.": http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability for status views auto-refresh in IBM Cognos Administration

An automatic refresh interval should be configurable to specify the refresh interval of the status pages in IBM Cognos Administration. This applies for Current Activities, Upcoming Activities, Past Activities and Schedules.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Keep ISQL, C4GL, and R4GL installation and run time > compatible with being installed in the same INFORMIXDIR with all > cu

Keep ISQL, C4GL, and R4GL installation and run time > compatible with being installed in the same INFORMIXDIR with all > currently supported Informix Dynamic Server database server software and CSDK releases Changing this functionality will ...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Exposure Limit Monitor Start/End Date should allow for year to be specified

On the Partner Details screen, Risk Management/Exposure Limit Monitors- you can specify an Effective Begin Date (MM/dd) and an Effective End Date (MM/dd) but you cannot specify the year. In principle, the idea of having the ability to have monitor...
almost 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

Alter table / table schema change timestamp in systables (or sysmaster)

systables shows the creation date of a table. It would be useful to DBA's if alter date/time were shown also. At times we want to know when a table was altered. I provided a PMR number above as one scenario where this information was needed but th...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration