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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Eliminate PAX error in Design Mode

My client uses Design mode to build reports based off a 20 dimension cube. This way it does not recalculate each time something is dragged in or the context changes. An issue arises where the user drags in the dimenion on the rows and then goes to...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Is a defect

Return SQL error when DBA attempts ALTER DDL with both pending and immediate changes, instead of returning "0" and "losing" a change.

We recently opened an SR TS005591497 with support when we found that an ALTER to a LOB tablespace specifying both PRIQTY and COMPRESS returned SQLCODE 0, but the PRIQTY was "lost". IBM support pointed out the following: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Is a defect

Db2 V12 Change MODIFY RECOVERY To Delete Non Expired Data Sets

In Db2 V12 MODIFY RECOVERY with DELETEDS, DELETEDS specifies that cataloged image copy data sets are to be deleted when the corresponding SYSCOPY records are deleted. When we run MODIFY RECOVERY with DELETEDS, non-expired disk data sets are ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Is a defect

Stop pre populating Send Report by email To field with Cognos ID

Description Problem: When user trying to run any with Run as in the background and send report by email the To text box is being repopulated with users Cognos_id which is not a valid email address. Steps to reproduce:goto any report click ... Run ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

New Routing Rules Screen in Internet Explorer does not work properly

The new Routing rules screen does expand well in Internet Explorer it works with FireFox which is not our standard browser the screen collapses and it's not friendly. see attached screen shots
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect

Enable to display “Missing value characters”-Measure-Formatting in Crosstabs, which was set in the Framework Manager and is used in the Dynamic Query Mode

Without such feature users have to set such formatting in every Crosstab-Report for every measure manually. Moreover this functionality for the Crosstabs is supported in the Compatible Query Mode, but it was not extended to the Dynamic Query Mode.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Is a defect

Controller Web error handling (with relation to invalid actualities / submissions)

With current version of Controller (v11), if you have a 'rogue' (invalid) submission (where it refers to an actuality that has been deleted in the past, so no longer exists) then it is impossible to launch Controller Web. Specifically, as soon ...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Is a defect

OPL solve progress dialog combined objective number format

Small cosmetic issue in OPL solve progress dialog. The number for thecombined objective doesn't have commas for the thousands. Theindividual goal values are formatted correctly. See attachedscreenshot.
over 3 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Is a defect

Only single space should not be consider as character in Action comment in Workflow

When Action comment is mandatory, system is considering "space" as character. It means I can just give space and submit my request.There should be some enforcement to enter something other than space.
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Is a defect

Make the Cognos pop-up "validation" or "running report" contextual to its browser tab area

When validating or running a report and switching to the home screen or to another report the hourglass pop-up message remains in the front persistently. Our expectation is the pop-up message "Validating with report server" remains in the tab area...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect