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Report Studio: Excel Data Export should consider Framework Manager settings (e.g. currency)

The Excel data export functionality not only ignores the settings in the report (ok) but also from the model (not ok). Even if a currency is defined for a measure in the model, the export will use the currency symbol corresponding to the logon lan...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Federation for XML data type

Description Federation queries (select statements) against an Oracle server are failing if the Oracle table has an XMLTYPE column. Even a select count(*) against these tables fails. Tables in the same Oracle server that do NOT have XMLTYPE colum...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Fluid Query 0 Not under consideration

Implement Advisors for recommendations

Would be nice to have advisors and alerts in order to identify need of memory adjustments, table reorging, report the need of collecting statistics, database backups and other important things that DBA should be aware in order to guarantee a good ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Lack of information about Queries from Federated DBs - particulary from DB2 z/OS

From DSM we should be able to see the transactions from federated databases. In the case when we are having some federated transaction contention we are not able to see on the source database on DSM getting more difficulty to diagnose a performanc...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Improve backup configuration

Actually we need to define some environment variables like DSMI_DIR, DSMI_CONFIG to implement a TSM backup. So in case we forget to configure this at first moment we will need to do an instance restart. Would be better to consider some dynamic par...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 4 Not under consideration

Improve lock management

Eliminate a lock needed by a SELECT statement in order to performance a query without need to implement a dirty read - UR.Although there is a solution doing an uncommitted read on the transaction, it requires an application modification changing t...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Execution Plan

At execution time DB2 recommend and implemment the best execution plan for a transaction/procedure automatically.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Inclusion of missing area names for Kuwait

In Cognos version 11.0.12, for the country Kuwait , the list of master records with Area names for Map visualization is not exhaustive. Hence, the area names received from other source systems like SAP, are different from that of Cognos Map. As a ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need documentation for Statistics Server failure codes when jobstep submitted from C&DS

Sometimes an SPSS Statistics jobstep submitted from C&DS fails. In the output log for C&DS all that the end user knows is that the job failed and they see error codes like "-1", "-2", "-3", etc. However there is no documentation on what th...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Default 'Active Only' to unticked on Grid View

It would be useful to choose whether we can default the 'active only' tick box to unticked. Giving users this option would be good as we have implemented workflows but if an object has gone through a workflow then it does not appear when 'active o...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration