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Sum row in PAfE

A totals line is desired in the exploration in PAfE. Currently, only totals columns are possible.
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Have an Auditor role in watsonx.ai

As an Auditor, I need to be able to see all the AI models that exist in the organization so I can be sure we know all of them and can audit them for any risks and account for their existance. The priority for me would be to support this first in I...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review

Tolerance for alter table add/drop column for Oracle

We use table -> table replication. If there is a common alter table add column change the replication goes down and we have to update source / target table definition, stopp all subscriptions, have to set a bookmark and after that we are able t...
almost 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Dynamically Filter List of Report Names in Folder

In addition to the "Filter By type" and Sort By options at the top of a list of Report Names in a folder, provide a text box to Filter the list. For Folders with many reports it takes a long time to scroll down in segments and a long time for the ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Monitor activities by the user

Regarding DMC capabilities, I would like to know if there is a possibility to monitor activities by the user. This is very important for our Db2 environment, whether qualified or unqualified table names are used (in case of unqualified names would...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 3 Functionality already exists

Enhance RACF ENF 79 signalling for grouping class profiles relating to DB2 objects

We found that if someone has successfully executed e.g. a Stored Procedure with access granted via a RACF grouping profile and then you remove their access to that grouping profile alongside relevant RACLIST REFRESH command, they can still execute...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Audit user Group Management Activity

In IBM Cognos Analytics, as an administrator, I am tasked with adding and removing users from various groups based on organizational needs. However, despite having necessary admin rights , there is no visibility of this activity on Cognos Logs. Th...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Format Manager and consolidated cells

The format manager has a lot of great features that make applying styles to a cube viewer easier. However, a basic need is the ability to change the colour of a cell if the cell is consolidated, this currently is quite difficult to apply and the r...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

AI Assistant should be applied to user work flow, not just data

The AI assistant should be able to look at what a user is commonly doing within Cognos and suggest better ways of doing it. It should work with the user to set up these suggestions. Cognos is a complicated product, and users don't often use it the...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Ability to hide button 'Automatic Dashboard' via role customization or user capability

There is a new function 'Automatic Dashboard' in Cognos 12.0.4 which cannot be hidden from our users, neither with role customization nor with user capability. There are two main issues with that function so we want to have the ability to hide it....
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Not under consideration