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We need to create nicknames for ODM data source from db2 federation server using JDBC driver. It is failing if the ODM data source table has indexes. ODBC driver can handle this situation, but not with JDBC driver. Please make this function available.

We need to create nicknames for ODM data source from db2 federation server using JDBC driver. It is failing if the ODM data source table has indexes. ODBC driver can handle this situation, but not with JDBC driver. Please make this function availa...
almost 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Delete Documents from collection by condition

It would be handy to be able to delete documents from a collection by defining conditions. Something I would do in a sql-database like this: DELETE FROM collection_name WHERE publication_date < date('2018-01-01')
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Make calculated measures works with auto-generated members in cross tables

When using a calculated measure coming from a Dynamic Cube as sub-column of an auto-generated member (E.g. "Year to date Change") in a cross-table, the output results are calculated wrongly. For "not calculated" measures, the output calculated in ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New field addition in Cognos Controller users tab for addition of global ID's

Hi Team, This is a request to add new feature to Cognos controller user management by addition of new field in users tab to add the Global ID details of users in the tool so that we can have the same saved in the database and hence we can use th...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

formal export/import procedure in Decision Center instead of cut and paste.

This was suggested by one of my ODM users and promptly seconded by others. I did open a pmr to ask about this and was told it is not supported and suggested posting the idea here. Our requirement is to download the actual decision tables(Excel For...
almost 6 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration

Logstash upgrade

We need to upgrade logstash to remediat vulnerability.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.2.1 1 Not under consideration

DB2 should not attempt to start accelerators until TCP/IP connectivity is established

IDAA accelerators are needed to speed up processing many of our DB2 queries. We require that the accelerators are started and functional after a DB2 starts up. If they are not functional, this will result in production query slowdowns and other op...
over 11 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

replicate forbid select cell from Excel to TM1Web

TM1 websheets support cell protection that uses the "Protect Sheet" feature in Microsoft Excel but if "Select locked cells" option is unselected and sheet is published you can still select the cells on TM1Web. The request is to have also this Exce...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide a COPY utility option to skip resetting the modified bits(s) in the space map pages of the page set

IBM COPY utility utilizes significantly more CPU (and elapsed time) than BMC COPY using RESETMOD(NO) and CA Quick Copy MODIFYBITS(NO). The increased CPU utilization prevents us from using IBM COPY. While we understand why in a perfect world we wou...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enable multi threading for the ODM ODBC Driver for Linux

Enable multi threading for the ODM ODBC Driver for Linux so Linux clients can run multiple queries in parallel
almost 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration