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search within a custom subset in subset editor

Cannot search within a custom subset in subset editor. Search features do not seem to work even though the element that is being searched for exist
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Enhanced Finish button

Currently in a report with independent prompts ‘Finish’ refreshes the page only if the prompt values are changed on the report. If the prompt values remain the same from the previous execution the previous page is displayed. Although prompt values...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report book extraction in excel workbook instead of separate excel files

When running a report book in cognos controller, it would be helpful to have the possibility to generate multiple excel reports in a single report book in 1 excel workbook instead of all single excel files.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Infosphere Classic CDC - needs to handle IMS exits better

Currently, the Infosphere Classic CDC comes with 2 IMS exits:DFSFLGX0DFSPPUE0These datasets need to be in the IMS Steplib concatenation to be accessed, and are using the default names. Now that IMS V13 and IMS V14 can specify any module name for a...
almost 8 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Please increase the timeout value on the SLDS contention situation.

Customers would like to have larger timeout value on the SLDS contention situation. This is because,- SLDS contention situation could happen in production. - It is not a problem or operation mistake. - In that situation, customer does not like to ...
almost 8 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

SOLR support as Cognos data source

Hi, we have a search platform that is based on the open source project Apache Solr. We want to expose data stored within the platform to Cognos so that subsets may be modeled and incorporated into analysis. I'm told this is not yet a consideration...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

On main page of WEBGUI, wrong default behavior when sorting by column in symphony apps or ego servcies

If one wants to sort by running tasks by clicking on Task[Running] button, the default result from this sorting is "ascending"instead of ascending. Why would user wants to see 0 running task applications first... The same issue happens in ego serv...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

Request to have app profile level settings to limit number of tasks executed in a persistent service instance

In a large cluster shared by 100's of applications from different LOBs, quite often, the a bad application workload might crash or disable servers by:1) over consumption of system memory2) filling up the root file systems with core files3) etcIn t...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Not under consideration

Transfering free value to another project in LS immediately

< Condition > Let's suppose,- There are two prjects in LS, prj1 and prj2.- There are two license features, lic1 and lic2.- There are two free lic1 and many free lic2 are remained.- Between prj1 and prj2, SHARE mode, 50%:50%.So, for lic1, prj...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 2 Not under consideration

Workspace Calculation Use Alias Names

We use alias names on recent forecasts Current, Previous, Previous 2. In one of our books we do a variance between Current and Previous forecast. However the calculation uses the primary name of the element "Q2 Week 5 Forecast". So when we get a n...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration