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Option to rename column headers in Dashboard object table

We use a table to display a Top 5 list based on a count on a date field. We would like to rename the column header "Date of Login (Timestamp)" to somethin more meaningful, as this column contains a count value. This is not possible.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Allow customizing the alert email message (summary + description)

We send CP4D alerts by email and we would like to do a filtering by severity and component, maybe more variables. This allows us to prioritize our incident management and would be of great value.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

RID problem instrumentation improvement

The IFI 2 & 3 fields QISTRLLM and QISTRPLM and the RID fields in the 316 and 401 are all basically “useless” these days to actually detect a RID related limit problem. I know that the QXRFMIAP is available in the IFI 2 & 3 but it is needed...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Cognos 11 - scheduling active reports

In Cognos 11, the ability to subscribe to an Active Report is no longer there. This is a feature that existed previously. In Cognos 11, if I open a regular report, I get a "..." menu where I can choose to subscribe to the report. However, for Acti...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copying and/or revising workflows

Creating a workflow in the Open Pages platform is easy, but once its created it does not have the flexibility to be leveraged. For example: you do not have the ability to copy a workflow , rename a workflow, copy an action within a workflow, copy ...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Not under consideration

There is no method to quickly get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image

It is not possible to get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image without first restoring the image or by using 'db2ckbkp -l' but it is also too long as it has to read the entire backup image (this can be long if the image is stored on TSM /...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

Demarcate the kind of filesystem (shared vs local vs HDFS vs S3) and the kind of file (CSV, etc) when showing the lineage.

Truist uses Informatica Power Center to process critical data elements (CDE) from different Applications relying on several technologies like Oracle, MSSQL, DB2 LUW, 2, Salesforce, Filesystem Db2 ZOS, Netezza. Data Governance Stewards are using Ma...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

The name of the error log package, when downloaded from Log Viewer, should match the connection name for the respective workflows.

In the current Log Viewer tab of the Admin UI, error logs can be downloaded to verify whether Manta is correctly reading nodes and edges. However, when these logs are downloaded, they are named 'Package' followed by a reference number. I propose c...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

File System that are derived in Manta should be marked as Derived

Truist uses Informatica Power Center to process critical data elements (CDE) from different Applications relying on several technologies like Oracle, MSSQL, DB2 LUW, 2, Salesforce, Filesystem Db2 ZOS, Netezza. Data Governance Stewards are using Ma...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Offer a Hibernate SQL Dialect for Adabas

Hibernate is a famous and very extended persistence development framework in Java community.It includes what is called SQL Dialect for different DDBB providers to create correct SQL statements from Java code. We missed Adabas one, and when using "...
about 2 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Under review