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Date and User selector type Question in Questionnaire

It would be better to have the Date and User single and multi-select as question type in Questionnaire
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Under review

PAW Synchronise Action Button parameters with Sheet Selections

This has already been requested by four different people: Aug-2019 PAOP-I-490 59 Votes Oct 2019 PAOP-I-530 10 Votes Nov 2019 PAOC-I-77 4 Votes May 2020 PAOC-I-77 4 Votes TOTAL 77 Votes From browsing the list of requests, this means that this reque...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

User_id who executed DQ Rule to be made available in IKC BI Data Service Model table dq_rule_execution

We need to know which user executed the data rule. We use different users for live execution and for testing/investigations. We need to be able to filter out test runs from regulatory reporting.
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Functionality already exists

Convert Db2 managed nonUTS workfile TSs for DGTT or SORT only without DROP/RECREATE by online REORG

Starting with function level 13508 we can use workfile separation for DGTTs and SORT. We want to prevent that we have to drop and recreate all the existing nonUTS segmented workfiles. Wouldn't it be possible to convert them by ALTER and online REO...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Export global search list result

Using the Global Search function on the homepage, we would like to be able to export the data list result. In fact, actually is not possible to extract and download the result list.
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Data Quality Rule: Preview of records without output table

Current behaviour: In order to see a preview of all records / failing records / or passing records, I need to define always an output table.Only with this information IBM knows what to display (columns, variables, metrics, etc.).Without configurin...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Planned for future release

Apply COS Object lock with a retention period and legal hold for Db2 database backups and log archival.

•As part of the backup, the object(S) created in COS should get an object lock with retention period assigned. •This is used to prevent the backup image from being deleted for that period. Once the object lock expires, the backup image will be del...
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 for SAP applications 1 Future consideration

Exclude folders from Cognos search

All folders in Cognos 11 are indexed by the cognos search by default. So the consumers also get the search results from the internal folder of the report developers. 1) It would be helpful to exclude these internal folders from the cognos search, ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

UI enhancement: adding Restart-options for CDC subscriptions without data

When the subscriptions failed, it always need customer to restart it manually. in banking environment there are too many subscriptions need to monitor and manage, even coding to management is also hard work, and it will impact real-time efficiency...
almost 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

PAW - stop column resize upon selector change

In PAW workbooks, for cube views - when a selector is updated the column width changes. Enhancement: to be able to freeze the automatic resizing on column width. For example below - the 'comment' column is sized correctly with Aug month is selecte...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted