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Header of rows to appear in tables

It would be more than great to have name of header for the rows to be available in table view. Today it is possible for Attributes. We would like to have the same with Dimension name. Could have a good impact on user acceptance. See screen shot fo...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Setting up the “Run in the Background” as default option at user level

Most of our customers are using “Run in the Background” option for long running reports. They will be okay to use this option however the user has to explicitly set this option every time they run the report which they want to avoid, and it would ...
27 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing.

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing. - Which statistics were looked at - Relative costs for table scan/index usage - Why a given index is not used - Which join orders are considered - Why join orders are excluded from t...
27 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted
199 VOTE

Reduce Time Required for Online(Inplace) Reorg for huge tables

1) Inplace reorg will take time more for the tables with huge data say for example 1 TB 2) To Reduce the time for this we want to avoid full table scan hence we need to look in portions of the data in a table where it is getting fragmented 3) Henc...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 21 Not under consideration

Indexable external tables

Create a new class of external table that can be indexed and accessed via index(es).
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Fix the Python Extension Input node in 18.5

Modeler 18.5 The new option for writing native Python code (pandas-like) in Extension nodes is incomplete because the Extension Input node does not allow assigning a dataframe for the data; instead, you must use the Extension Input node solely fo...
10 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted

Implement security options for data sets

In data modules it is possible to imeplement data security filters (eg. based on cognos groups). As data sets is a very strong option in many areas we need to implement data security filters in data sets as well. available approaches with macros i...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Password less authentication or API to update password for CDC engine and Management Console

We need the following enhancements on CDC - (1) CDC engine for IBM iseries needs to support password less authentication like kerberos, or have an API that allows password to be updated. (2) CDC Management console, need to support password less au...
10 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Implement ability to force terminate PAfE executions on TM1 Server

In certain situations, we have observed that PAfE executions cannot be cancelled through TM1Top or through the CancelOperation method within REST API. These threads subsequently block dimension updates (READ locks prevent all other WRITE actions, ...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Operational Risk Management OpenPages module - Inquiry Regarding Control and Evaluation Features Update

LA POSTE client expresses the desire to have the ability to conduct sampling checks through control grids and evaluations. In the absence of being able to duplicate the control grid for each sample to be checked, we have explored the possibility o...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review