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Calculations on single measure (ie YTY/QTQ on rev measure) in Dashboard

Today in Cognos Analytics Dashboard we are unable to perform calculations on a single measure.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Bufferpool Min_lru_dirty and Max_lru_dirty Threshold values to be altered dynamically

onparams -b can be used to add a new bufferpool and AUTO_LRU_TUNING are available on informix server but first only adds a bufferpool of a new page size and the latter only kicks in if some foreground writes occur on a server which ideally is neve...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

Export Story Functionality

Need the ability to export a Story into PDF, PowerPoint, mp4 and/or a custom downloadable format.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More information & transparency about deployment process of Shiny App needed - Watson Machine Learning

Currently when promoting a Shiny App from Watson Studio to Watson Machine Learning and deploying this Shiny App in Watson Machine Learning there is only little feedback over the progress of the deployment. This is making it difficult troubleshooti...
over 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Planned for future release

Permanent Hide the filters in a Dashboard for end user

End users not to be able to implement filters on the data.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Ability to show the progress and cancel option for a TI process in between while the process is running

We have created books in Planning Analytics Workspace and each book contains buttons which are linked tpo TI Process in backend. When a button is clicked TI Process starts executing there is no progress bar or anything shown neither there is an op...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Require Support for Spark 3.5.x and python 3.11

Python version 3.11 is required and no current Spark versions support it
2 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Submitted

Support reading a CLOB field at least from DB2

Currently we have to cast a CLOB field as VARCHAR in order to read it into modeler from a DB2 source, and then we only get the first N characters. Please support reading entire CLOB as a string of size at least 256K characters or preferably more o...
2 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Under review

use microcharts in the dashboard module

in the legacy report module it is possible to add microcharts in lists. This is not possible anymore in the dashboard module, and also not available as a new 11.* visualization. I would like the microchart to be available in the dashboard module a...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted

Re-usable Supernodes -- multiple instances of same one can occur in stream but modifying it immediately modifies all instances. Like a callable Function/Subroutine/Macro in programming languages.

Often we want to perform the same set of operations ("sub-flow") in multiple places in the stream, e.g. for similar/parallel data either from different data sources, or destined for different output or export nodes. It is essential that the *same*...
2 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Under review