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PAW: Annotate visualizations

It would be great if the visualizations could be commented. At the moment this is not possible.
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Password requirements

The IT security policy in many organizations have detailed requirements regarding password complexity and how this is handled. The complexity of passwords set up in Controller is not enough. Except what's already possible to limit regarding pw in ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Allow Adding of Existing Element to New Hiearchy

When creating a new hierarchy, or editing an existing hierarchy, you can't add an existing element (one that you created previously and exists in the Leaves hierarchy, or another hierarchy). It complains that it 'already exists' even though it DOE...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Is a defect

Block locking for U/D on MDC when LOCKSIZE=BLOCKINSERT

Block locking is done for INSERTs on MDC tables when LOCKSIZE = BLOCKINSERT, which is a great benefit for memory usage, and allow to parallelize treatments for different dimensions. However, this is unsufficient, because treatments do also Update/...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Simple federated query against SQL Server nickname with predicate on partial PK takes 150+ sec vs 0.1 sec against source db

The following query takes a long time when running against SQL Server nickname. See case TS001550410 for more details select *from nn.PAT_ENC_APPT_NOTESwhere PAT_ENC_CSN_ID ='99999999'
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Control the number of concurrent queries inside IDAA by Correlation ID, Connect Type, Connect ID, Authid and/or table name

Allow control of the number of queries running concurrent in IDAA per transaction (Correlation id), connect type, Connect ID, Authid and/or per table. This would provide a better control of IDAA usage by applications so that the most important one...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Register Windows service without starting it

Would like an option in Cognos Configuration to register the service without starting it (for example having a option available by right-clicking on the IBM Cognos object in the explorer). This would allow the user to then go and modify the servic...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add string data fileds TM1 cube support to Cognos BI

Cognos TM1 cube as a Cognos BI data source is supporting two types of data: numbers and strings. Number data fields works fine in Cognos BI, but there is no support for string data types. Please add string data types support in Cognos BI.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

remove or enlarge the data page limitation per fragment

when the total pages per fragment reach 16775134, the new data can't insert.the customer have to :1,stop the application 2,fragment the table3,reload the data 4,create the index 5, start the application
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Provide option to use the full dataset when advanced analytics only uses sampled data

The problem: Users can receive fast pattern warnings that indicate analysis was based on sampled data AND that there is no reliable predictive relationship. These users would be interested to see if the sampled data is representative of all data i...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration