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Built in cube reporting engine so there is no need for TM1

Controller users are required to use external products for cube reporting
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Alter Database CCSID to UNICODE

The CCSID of a database is only allowed to be ALTERed within the encoding scheme (in this case EBCDIC) and only to/from the euro-equivalent CCSID of the original EBCDIC CCSID. This is a legacy restriction at the design level. After converting all ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Robust Time Series node with a "split" role

When the TS node encounters a time series with poor quality, the whole Time Series node fails, for all the split models. The TS node should not fail when it meets a bad split, it should ignore it, and return "$null" in forecast field.
almost 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler Server 0 Future consideration

CDC Accounts audit

CDC User accounts accessed been collected in Audit trail logs at the moment. But it does not mention which machine is accessing the accounts. This is not helpful to find the users who are unauthorised. We need machine details also to be recorded i...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

IFCID 62 change to add creator/owner and timestamp

Add more complete object identification by including Creator/Owner in IFICID 62 DDL notitification API.
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support rich-text in annotations

Annotations should allow rich-text to provide formatting capabilites like bullet or numbered lists, bold, underlined and italic text and so on.It would be nice to allow ASCIIDoc or Markdown formatting (like in Jira or Gitlab).
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Hindi language support

Hindi is the most common of the Indian languages with more than half of the 1.3 Billion using the language. There are huge numbers of Hindi news/blog/social media messages that are critical for companies operating in India to be able to analyze.
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release

Set integrity at schema level

Allow to do a set integrity at the schema level
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Allow certain Table ALTERs when Table has defined View(s)

Allow certain Table ALTERs to be performed if the Table has a defined VIEW. The attached file contains the Table DDL and ALTER statement for this RFE's Use Case.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Need ability to search dimensions and levels, not just members.

We have many sources in our environment, but they are not all documented formally yet. And some of our dimension levels definitely contain more than 20 items.As an author, I often have a need to determine if a particular source has a particular di...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration