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Planning Analytics - Multi-Variable Calculations

Currently unable to define a formula as multi-variate and be able to hold one value, enter in another and have it update the remaining variableEx:Margin % = (Rev – Cost)/RevenueScenario 1 – Enter Revenue or Cost and have it update Margin %Scen...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Current Limitations of CP4D Role Management

Currently, although CP4D roles allow editing to add or remove functionalities, they are not recommended for user customization. This is because any changes made are reset to the default configuration whenever the zen-watcher pods are restarted. As...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Allow online index builds of functional indexes

The fact that we can't build functional indexes online effectively precludes them from use - or at least, makes it very difficult, as we can't do offline builds without an outage - which is expensive
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Would like Business rules to not allow a second click of the activate button or a flag be set that activation has started and not allow other attempts to activate again until it is complete.

A release was accidently activated twice within 2 minutes, while Business Rules was tied up, it kept inbound files from processing. This caused files to go into error in inbound physical transmissions. Files were able to be successfully restarted ...
7 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Under review

Reread SSL Keystore while Informix is running

To renewing the SSL Keystore Files it is neccesary to restart the whole DB Engine / Connection Manager, when the keystore Files have been changed. A "reread keystore" Function would be very helpfull, and would save a lot of Time and reduce downtim...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

New cards on homepage - Categories where I have 'xyz' category role and My artifacts where I am added as a steward

1. There should be a card which shows categories where user has some category role added. Users should be able to select multiple category roles or create multiple category cards with different roles. 2. There should be a card which shows all the ...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Under review

BLU CDE Online REORG

Currently BLU CDE tables only have the RECLAIM EXTENTS option of REORG enabled. This does not physically move rows and therefore REORG cannot reclaim extents unless 100% of the rows in an extent have been deleted (via deletes or BLU updates). Also...
about 10 years ago in Db2 5 Future consideration

Wrap-around PBG table optimized for time-series data

Add support for a new type of PBG table/tablespace which is optimized for time series data, such as that used for journaling, logging, staging, history collection, etc. The main feature of this new PBG table/tablespace is that data is always inser...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Enable Watch Rules in Cognos Analytics

We used to be able to create watch rules in Cognos 10X but that doesn't look like a case in Cognos Analytics. Customers can upgrade / import rules along with other content (Content Store) from C10 to C11 but they cannot create new rules.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

We would like to update a field length and not lose historical data

When we update the field max from 16 to 35 we don't want IBM Safer to wipe out existing data for that field
7 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Under review