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encode Active report lists and xtabs in JSON, not XML

currently the lists and crosstabs in an active report have thier supporting data encodeed in XML. This makes the resulting MHT file very large. All other visualzations have thier data encoded in JSON, which results in much smaller MHTs.Please cons...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a recycle bin for administrators

Users delete items by mistake and it would be nice to have a way to retrieve those items easily. It could empty on a rolling cycle to reduce size
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB object version control

Idea of versioning objects: UDFs, views, mqts and procedures. When we are replacing mentioned above objects with new statements we have to save old statements in notepad (or sth similar) in case if we want to return to previous version.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Sort members of Groups and Roles

I would like to be able to sort members within Groups and Roles. It is not easy to identify who is in a group or role, when names are in the order entered and not alphabetical.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

WHERE/GROUP BY clasue on column alias

Would be very userfull to wite WHERE/GROUP BY clasue on column alias. Very usefull for developers who are using OLAP Functions or other operations on column.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

SELECT * FROM FINAL TABLE (MERGE ...)

SELECT * FROM FINAL TABLE (MERGE ...) - It would be very usefull to select records that were just merged. The same way like with DELETE / UPDATE and INSTERT: SELECT * FROM FINAL TABLE (DELETE / UPDATE / INSERT)
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Sybase ASE connectivity via JDBC

Sybase ASE connectivity with Cognos 10.2.1 is through compatible query mode which is a 32bit connection. We would like to know IBM's plan to support JDBC connectivity with Sybase ASE.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos BI to operate and co-exist with ipstatus conntrack "stateful "firewall" with "default" configuration settings

New Functionality requested with Cognos:When Oracle maintenance is required to be carried out there will always be a Cognos CS instance available. We're seeking for Cognos BI to operate in such a manner to ensure that it ipstatus conntrack table o...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Variable returning the version of a job step asset

We have a number of jobs defined in C&DS that are all using the same underlying SPSS Modeler stream as a job step to create a report.All of the jobs use the version of the Modeler stream that is labeled "PROD" indicating that this is the produ...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Security on Log Reports

One is unable to apply security on the Log Reports. Although a user may be restricted and have specific have rights to certain entities, the same user can open a Data Load Log Report for all entities and therefore gain access to privileged data.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration