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Make PDF documentation available that describes the Cognos extended SQL functions

It is common practice by Cognos report authors and administrators to use the "Generate SQL" feature to view the SQL that executed during a report run. This may be done either for performance improvement or troubleshooting reasons. When the SQL con...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Rename a table shouldn't be restricted if the db admin doesn't have sec admin authority

After discussing this with our developers they agree that the ability to rename a table shouldn't be restricted if the db admin doesn't have sec admin authority. They agree that having the rename procedure automatically handle the recreation of RC...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Modeler code conversion

It seems that Modeler converts characters as explained in the attached file. Therefore, Japanese has a problem with the Unicode converter. Some Japanese characters are garbled when converting from Shift-JIS to Unicode and when converting from Unic...
almost 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Functionality already exists

Work load manager- time wasting while waiting for a job to start

Hello We did a migration from datastage version 7.5 to version 11.5. while deliver all jobs to production we realize that the performance in the new version are very poor compare to the old version. after investigation we realized that it becaus...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

enhancement to "force application command"

enhance the "FORCE APPLICATION" command to identify threads belonging to a particular database and purging the threads
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Data Formatting capabilities for Calculated Time Members

I have created couple of new Calculated members in the time dimension called MTD%Inc and YTD%Inc which calculated the percentage increase in Sales over current year and last year. Which is a percentage value. I would like to change the data format...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Effective Rename Entity and Relations for Annotations

At the moment, when we rename the name/label of the Entity and Relation under "ASSET" column, it doesn't change existing annotations, which are still associated with the previous labels. This is problematic when we need the label to be changed,...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Standby IDs should be

db2pd does not show corresponding STANDBY_ID on standby servers when using multiple standbys.For example: Invoking db2pd on the PRIMARY database shows the STANDBY_ID's (1=PRINCIPAL, 2 and 3 = AUX), invoking the db2pd on the related STANDBY's does ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Use encryption of user and password for client/server communication as default

Default value of the dbm cfg AUTHENTICATION parameter is SERVER. Also the jdbc/jcc driver does not encrypt the user and password values in a connection by default. Two solution options:1. change default value for dbm cfg authentication from SERVER...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Need better axis label formatting control

Report authors are unable to control the border around the axis labels.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration