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Require Symphony processes to run as non-root in advancewem

Commerzbank is using Windows 2003 Management hosts which is reaching its end of support and we are in situation where we have to move to another OS immediately. So far we have tested it with Windows 2008 but Windows 2008R2 has non-configurable ver...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration

Set default width of vertical divider

The entire name of the PowerPlay Reports cannot be displayed in the navigation bar, because they are a bit too long. Ability to set the default width of vertical divider for all users.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Optimistic concurrency in the BigQuery write modes

ibm engineering has asked WMT to add an enhancement request for Optimistic concurrency in the Google BigQuery write modes
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Copy email addresses from distribution list

Sometimes one needs to repoint a job step to another report or just send another report to the same or similar DL, so it would be quick to just copy the DL from one to another. However in the latest GUIs, the email addresses cannot be copied as te...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Show message when adding email address that is already in the list

When maintaining the email distribution list for a report, the interface doesn't accept an email address that is already in the list (which is good), neither does it give a message saying exactly that (which is not so good). As you do not know why...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Deliver server installation as Docker package

With Microsoft looking to implement support for Docker (docker.com), it could be nice to have a delivery option as a Docker package. Not necessarily via dockerhub, it's possible to load and use a docker image from a downloaded file as well.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

DELETE entry in SYSCOPY based on when the image copy dataset is not found in the ICF catalog

Db2 Recover or Db2 Log Analysis tool could get an error referring to a Image Copy dataset that not longer exists. The above could happen when there is a misalignment between the Db2 catalog information (syscopy) and ICF catalog.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Detect like-named objects and convert to non-part objects on current SSID

Object Profile contained some like-named objects that were added to the profile when they were Partitioned and now they are no longer Partitioned. This would require us to update the Object Profile for those objects and resubmit the job.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Salesforce connector: support Loyalty Cloud module

A few months ago the need to access the Salesforce platform via SPSS emerged, in particular the Loyalty Cloud module, which was recently released on the market. Loyalty Cloud objects are available starting from version 51 of the APIs but, actually...
almost 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Better functionality in Company structure, Reorder

In Maintain > Company structure – Define, the Reorder-window, the drag-and-drop functionality is very time consuming, in larger groups. Please add the possibility to cut-and-paste row(s) as an alternative to drag-and-drop.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration