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Remove "Convert All Books to Snapshots”

Remove from the Planning analytics menu Snapshot > “Convert All Books to Snapshots” At this point I would call it a Should Have (Almost Must Have. I keep hitting it because it is so close to the option above it)
over 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

security groups

When needing to see the users of a security group there is no option to print or report that information. We can screen shot for short groups but when there are more that 50 users can't really do. It would be great if we had a report that can do t...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show Kernel Log in Notebook

Whenever Notebook is running any cell, it is very important that user be able to see the kernel log for the cell that is being executed in notebook. It would be very helpful to see the log on the right panel under a seperate tab.All this idea need...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

The latest version in DSX mixes the stage progress with output

It looks like this is a new defect that was not present previously: the notebook will show the Spark task progress in text (e.g. for a statement like df.show(5)) and will mix it with the output for Scala notebooks. Here is an example: [Stage 15:...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Is a defect

Job name change while migrating jobs from DataStage to ClearCase

We are integrating Infosphere DataStage 11.5 with ClearCase 8.0.1 and it was successful but when we are migrating DataStage jobs to ClearCase VOB job names are not getting replicated as it is instead of that jobs are added with an extension. Examp...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

When i try to add a user to project, that is already a user of that project, it should show an appropriate error instead of showing nothing but then not allowing that add

once there are lots of users, it isn't always obvious is somebody is asking to be added that they aren't already a project member. The current UI doesn't give any explaination for why it won't add the new user.
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Get MemBktd/MemCmpd using APIs and Compare using MemCmpd using APIs

We would like the Java API's enhanced with the following new methods: A method that accepts MemRowList of attributes returns MemBktd and MemCmpd rows for those records. A method that accepts MemRowList of MemCmpd and compares records using informa...
over 8 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Support for a Teradata connector

We need to provide a connector for Teradata to allow these sources to be connected to and cataloged. This has come in from 2 clients, a healthcare provide in Egypt and a telecoms provider in the UK. This is a big cap in our connectors from what I ...
over 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

TM1 Contributor - Highlight cell and get instant total at the footer of the page

We were using Cognos EP before and recently moved TM1. Most of our users use this feature but in TM1 there is such option. I would request for an interim fix specifically catering to this enhancement as this quite useful feature and mostly used in...
over 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Require Users to Authenticate with their own usernames to the "connection" in the DSX project

When you create a connection in a project, you create it using a single login or "service account". This reduces auditability and increases the likely hood that someone gains access to data they may not have the right to. When accessing a database...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration