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MDI>Exclude Tables or view functionality is not working for GCP Big Query connection. [For Teradata and Oracle exclude scenario is working fine]

While creating MDI job Exclude Tables or view functionality is not working for GCP Big Query connection and its working for other connections like Teradata and Oracle. we need the same option to be worked for GCP Big Query connection also.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

MDI is failing in the discovery stage due to a token expiration issue for a large number of schemas.

When an MDI job is running against Google Big Query it processes each schema to discover all of the tables. If the number of tables in the GBQ instance is large enough that the processing of each schema takes long enough that the connection token ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Functionality already exists

option to upgrade reports specification automatically during an upgrade of Cognos Analytics

Upgrading report specifications never happens automatically when performing an upgrade of Cognos Analytics. We would like to have an option to automatically upgrade report specifications during an upgrade of Cognos analytics, if export/import of t...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Make Watson Analytics for Social Media data available in Cognos Analytics

It would be great to be able to use the Social Media data currently available in Watson Analytics for Social Media, as a data source in Cognos Analytics.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable Custom SQL for AWS Redshift connector

Problem statement: For all our ETL transformations across NYL, we use custom SQL to extract the data. Workaround in POC: We are using JDBC connector to read data from Redshift Database Benefits/values: Using native redshift connector wi...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 3

Published terms under category can be filtered, but the drafts can not - please add similar filtering functionality to drafts also

We have cases where there are going to be a lot of drafts, so filtering on the drafts is just as useful to us as of the published ones. In the screenshot you can see that filters exist for published governance artifacts. But if one chooses the "Dr...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Advanced Search - "Exact Phrase"

Currently, Search Capability in Cognos works great but it returns a lot of stuff when we search for one particular keyword. So could you please add an advanced search option, where it only returns the reports with exact word that was searched.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

A View with Select * should be regenertated without Drop/Create View

We have a lot of views defined with Select *. Since DB2 V8 we have the option to add columns to the base table, but the view does not include the new column, which is ok and accepted. But to get the new column we have to drop and recreate the View...
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Hide Attributes Prefixed with }

Hide all attributes starting with the curly bracket "}" from the Subset Editor, also making it a control object (similar to other control cubes, dimensions, processes, views, subsets).
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Ability to see and manage application folder in PAW

Currently you only see the websheets In Reports and analysis and not the same folder structure as you see in TM1web which organizes certain views for different task and departments to utilize. Some users use the websheets heavily, but others use v...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists