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Show description in table view(Available Assets list)

Problem statement/pain point: Table view = Available asset list in main panel, we can see “NAME”, “OWNER”, “TAGS”, “TYPE”, “DATE ADDED” as items in this asset list. We can not see other information about detail of the assets(such as description) ...
over 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Modifying the Default Portal Action Globally

Is it possible to modify the default properties of a report in Cognos Connection on a global basis? The Cognos default action of a report is ‘View Most Recent Report’. We need to change that to ‘Run Report’ but would like to do it on a global basi...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Unable to clear error: IDAA 436: Failed to collect status from resource manager

The error below shows in the ap issues area in IDAA Appliance. We use IAS. Open alerts (issues) and unacknowledged events +------+---------------------+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+--------------------...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

For the -12.. Conversion errors, please specify the column name.

It is quite hard to find the column that contains a wrong value in update/inserts statements with many columns in case of such an error message. For other errors the column name is in the sqlca structure. Why is it missing for the conversion error...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Required libraries on Windows server

We need a new environment besides the existing installations of MDM Standard Edition 11.6.0.11. The following site shows the Visual C++ 2012 library is required for the installation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/imdm/11.6?topic=deployment-installat...
11 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics encrypts the Excel report

For the existing Cognos Analytics, can export Excel report. However, it cannot be encrypted. Is there any roadmap for supporting Excel encrypted?
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Checkboxes in PAW

Hi, I miss checkboxes in PAW. Checkboxes are nothing more than boolean buttons, but can be used in a variety of ways to allow the end user to interact with the report. I often encounter the following scenarios in which I would like to see checkbox...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Needs more information

Non-Sorting, online way to encrypt Db2 Datasets

Currently to encrypt Db2 datasets in an online fashion we use the REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE. For large tablespaces, or well-organized tablespaces, this incurs the cost of reorganizing (sorting mostly) that we would rather not have just to encrypt. We ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Not Able to Rename - Data Set Column

Problem : Not able to rename any column in Data set. Cognos Analytics Version 11.0.9. When a chart is created using a Dataset, it shows all business names. To Rename a data set column, we have to do a extra step of creating a Data Module from Data...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Addition of trend lines on visualizations in dashboard currently no in dashboard but we have these in report studio old charts.

As the name you kept as Cognos Analytics and always say AI but we dont have a basic option of AI is addition of trendlines for visualizations in dashboard but you can see the attachment we have trendlines/baselines/markers/notes all of them in old...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release