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WKC - Multi select option in connected Asset Import in the catalog view

If we add connected assets to a catalog we can only select one asset and have to provide a name for that asset. Usually we import hundreds of tables and this seems quite painful. We would prefer a experience where we can select multiple tables, fi...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Functionality already exists

WKC - -support the concept of group to assign roles

Currently only single user can be authorized in CPD. As with WKC many user may access the platform and have to be administered. Synchronizing groups from LDAP and assigning roles to a group wil be requested.
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Provide functionality to pass prompt values in parameterized URLs to Dashboards.

An external application uses Cognos Report URLs with Prompt parameters to open Cognos reports filtered with prompts values and want to have the same functionality available for Cognos Analytics Dashboards.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW Lifecycle Snapshot allow for incremental migration of worksheets with Action Buttons

Scenario: Client has many PAW workbooks each with Action buttons which navigate to other workbooks. Problem: If client wants to change only one workbook, they are unable to migrate only this workbook as the navigation links which reference this up...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Workflow Comments at Activity Tab

the comments exchanged between the creator and approver via workflow are only visible through the field and are not reflected in the activity tab. Please ensure that these comments are also added to the activity tab for better visibility.
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Allow relative time frame/data range in Report Definitions

Report definitions in Safer Payments only allow for a fixed time frame definition (i.e. from 2023-06-08 00:00:00 to 2023-06-09 00:00:00). At the same time Safer Payments can generate reports through a scheduled job, i.e. once per day. The job-gene...
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Avoid Reorg Abends by improving estimation of average row length

Today, for estimating the average row length being passed to sort, REORG gets that from catalog statistics with either AVGROWLEN or COMPRESSRATIO. The reason RTS stats is not used, is because RTS only contains the compressed data size.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Please add Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer without Adobe Flash

Currently the Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer requires Adobe Flash. The new Data Flow Designer by no means matches the capabilities and richness of DataStage Designer. Please provide the capability of editing the Assembly ...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 5 Not under consideration

TFUI Allow Bar Chart Order to be based on dropdown display order

When adding a bar chart, there is no option to select the sort order of the bars. It automatically orders the bars from longest to shortest. Clients have requested to allow sorting of the bars to be fixed order based on the dropdown order. For exa...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

DOE - DDL protection issue

Protection of Master DDL (tables etc.) owned by application teams and how DOE can successfully and fully restrict changes to only by ‘owners’ of those objects. Example: •A DOE Team is created e.g. ABC, assigned to an Environment and ABC team m...
10 months ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Future consideration