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Categorize/Organize Filters for easier access

Currently the dashboard has drastically increased the requirements for more filters. These filters clutter the user's Gridviews with dozens of filters. It would be nice to be able to categorize filters as 'For Grid View' and 'For Admin/Dashboards'.
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Small screenshot / sample of saved output object without opening or executing the object

This is just an idea I got when thinking about how do the report look, what columns are present, how can I look through a number of long running reports without having to either execute them or go into edit mode for each of the reports? What if, t...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Enhance the Support Tool to be able to remove ZOMBI jobs and create a log of exec hosts and pgids that need to be cleaned

We had an issue where LSF could not keep up with dispatch due to high numbers of ZOMBI jobs. We would like the ability to shut down LSF and clean up the ZOMBI jobs via a Database repair to accelerate the time-to-restore of the LSF clusters.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Names of mandates,submandates, and reqs coming from TRRI feed should be more meaningful

Currently a sample mandate name would look like this: N2337B6702C3811E193E9A4A10117562A By giving it a proper name finding the right mandate would become much easier, Also the context tree maps would become much more useful. This applies to submat...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

PAW - Heatmap Visualization - Display detailed values in legend instead of only MIN/MAX

As now in PAW 2.0.63 in New experience, the heatmap legend is only indicating the min/max values and do not give any further details about the heat graduation values. This does not allow users to estimate easily the gap between each "heat".
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Different Utility options for Implementation and Backout

A-HA is raised for the tool to provide the choice for different utility options for implementation and Recovery. At the moment the utility options apply to BOTH implementation and recovery job stream. There may be a need for choosing a Reorg when ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

do not cache domain server on startup

At present, if Cognos Analytics is configured to point at a domain name instead of a specific domain controller Cognos Analytics will cache the domain controller's IP it receives on start-up and use that controller until the next restart. As the c...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Cognos Controller on Cloud to keep users Favorites on next login. (to retain data on the rich tiers)

The current design of Controller on Cloud is not to retain data on the rich tiers. This means that users personally added Favorites are gone on next login.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Future consideration

Using EGO Audit Logs To Monitor Log On And Log Off Events At Web GUI and All REST APIs

The EGO Event Audits summarized in Table 1. EGO Event Logging Details of this URL https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-conductor/2.4.1?topic=auditing-ego-event-audits define the EGO events that must be audited. The same URL defines the expected au...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 0 Future consideration

Enable "overwrite encoding as binary" for CLOB

We have several CLOB columns in DB2 that contain binary data. Due to 0x00 Byte values we can't transfer them into a TEXT column in postgreSQL (0X00 is not accepted in utf-8). The Option "overwrite encoding as binary" on the CLOB Column in "Db2 for...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration