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Need Option to change the UI/API Relationship from (one to one) to (one to many)

Need Option to change the UI/API Relationship from (one to one) to (one to many)
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

pass a parameter through to dashboard link/url

As a user of the CRM system, I want to view a screen for a given Customer ABCDE and click on a Cognos Dashboard URL and let the session dynamically pass the variable ABCDE into the Dashboard URL so that the Cognos Dashboard opens up already filter...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Correctly Load Metadata and advise of any errors

I think this is a bug rather than an enhancement, but IBM Cognos Technical Support advised opening an enhancement request. Cognos Analytics 12 > Manage > Data Server Connections > {Data Server} > Assets > {Asset} > Load Metadata:...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Add SCIM support for CA

SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) is a standard for automating the exchange of user identity information between identity domains, or IT systems. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_for_Cross-domain_Identity_Management) An integ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Improved clarity of NFS mount points in DataStage

When configuring NFS mount points in datastage, it is not possible to define a name for the mount pointFor example: if I mount /mnts/tata/dev, in the asset "asset browser" when creating the stream. If I choose “DataStage persistent volume”, I'll s...
9 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

use a data module in Event studio

IBM Cognos Event Studio works with source items that were defined in an IBM Cognos Framework Manager model and published as a package. We need that IBM Cognos Event Studio works also with Data Modules.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Add filter & "bulk edit" options to the list of artifacts under a category

Our users work a lot based on a certain primary category - there can be hundreds of terms and rules under one category ("data asset") they're responsible for. For their way of working it would be natural to be able to filter (and also bulk edit/de...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

Status Alarm Indicator "Free Index Capacity in %"

Currently a regular, manual monitoring is necessary (compare discinct entries with the index capacity). Having a SAI can trigger an alarm automatically once a certain treshold is reached in order to check on the index size.
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Under review

The batch import of e.g. terms lacks individuality - one can only handle the batch approval/review/publish in bulk. Allow as an option handling of individual artifacts

Three use cases: a) a couple out of the batch should be rejected If there is two terms in a batch of 100 that should be edited before approved, then the full batch needs to be rejected until those two are in better shape. This is not a problem if ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

QMF read only mode

QMF client has an "edit table" mode which issues unnecessary update statements even when a simple select is done. From a security stand point, this is a problem as when the DB2 database is audited, it looks users are doing UPDATES even if they jus...
about 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release