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Need UI for collection current status and history

Currently collection don't show what task is processing and what task is finished. For example, after uploading documents, WD just show notification message. But, if the use miss that, user can not recognize whether the process is doing or not.
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Define Search Template for a team

"A search template can be made private to the creator of the search template or it can be shared with all of the users in the company in which the search template is defined." (Infocenter: pim_tsk_dev_creatingsearchtemplate.html) Many business org...
about 7 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Entry preview does not consider local changes

"Entry preview" are using entry data as they are in DB and are not considering entry data client side as user may have updated some attribute values before launching entry preview. As a result, user must SAVE entry before launching Entry Preview.S...
about 7 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Manage display name on container

Catalog name is displayed to end-users (in left panel / module) and it cannot be renamed. In Catalog console / Catalog Attributes, can you add a feature to update "catalog name" in order to : 1) adapt name to potential organizational change2) use ...
about 7 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Access Rights management on Lookup table

All lookup tables are accessible to a user who got access right to menu "Lookup console". We would like to have same ACG mechanism which is implemented on Catalog / Hierarchy to manage different level of access.
about 7 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

modify dsntep2 to produce result set despite exceessive warnings

DB2 and IDAA do not produce the same results for the example in question. That has been explained and will be documented but we would like to see DSNTEP2 at least run and produce output instead of only returning SQL error codes (-171 in our exampl...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SUMMARY shows wrong values until all nested items are nested within Summary

When crosstabs in Workspace Advanced has nested rows (for example Products and Channels), creating SUMMARY on the first item (Products) shows wrong TOTALS until all Channels or Summary of Channels are manually nested within in.In Analysis Studio, ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drop support for SQL Server 2012 and consider removing the use of 'legacy cardinality estimator'

Have had a few discussions with SQL Server dba:s recently during upgrades about the need to change the default sql server settings. There were some changes introduced in SQL Server 2014 that made performance really drop unless running in SQL Serve...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

allow update for span string after a job is started

Hello, currently, it's not possible to update the span string after a job is started. for ex: a user start a multinodes jobs using bsub .... -n x -R ".. span[ptile=y]" ... unfortunately, he forgot to specify to the tool to start in mutlinodes an...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

When going through the ALTER path, Admin tool currently does not allow explicit changes to the history table, due to Db2 restrictions.

When going through the ALTER path, Admin tool currently does not allow explicit changes to the history table, due to Db2 restrictions. However, Db2 does allow a change to a column's default value on the temporal table without changing the same col...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration