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Copy a report causes broken links

When copying a development version of a report to live, the report is overwritten, but all report views are broken, even though the location of the report and name remain the same.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expose API for managing enum values programatically

Currently, Tech team manages the Reference Data defined as Enum values. We would like to eliminate this IT dependency and would like to empower the business stake holders to be able to maintain the enum list. We also have downstream systems wantin...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Not under consideration

"Unpublishing" assets from catalog

Drop/Deleted tables are not updated (Not Marked as deleted) in the catalog after publishing it. Below requirement needs to be enhanced Propose: 1If we are publishing removed (status = removed from source) asset from project to catalog, it should d...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Automátic column-level encryption at rest

In Europe we have strong laws (GDPR) protecting personal data. Nobody, even programers or DBA can access personal data if not from an audited program who grants individual access to each user able to see this information. As application examples, ...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Online db encryption at rest

To implement encryption at rest - we have to do backup - restore i.e. outage to application. OUtage can only be avoided in case of HADR setup which is not always the case. This RFE is to bring feature of online db encryption without any outage to ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Need Governor on Netezza Appilance

Need a way (automated) to cancel very long running SQLon the Netezza Appliance(IDAA) that is impacting the CDC data latency running on Z/OS LPAR. Some type of governor is needed in the Netezza Appliance in order to insure that no run away SQL runn...
about 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Option to Hide user Interface elements from App bar using URL commands

we want the feature such that we can hide the specified user interface elements from Cognos app bar by passing commands in the URL. I tried using the steps provided in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_10.2.1/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Wildcards in ADMIN_GET_TAB_% functions

Example: if one uses a query like this:SELECT ... FROM TABLE(SYSPROC.ADMIN_GET_TAB_COMPRESS_INFO('SCHEMA1', '')) WHERE TABNAME LIKE 'ABC%' The Function will run for all tables in the given schema and after that will filter the output for predicate...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Drill Popup Modal

Often times users want to drill into data, but don’t want to navigate away from the current report. It would be very useful to allow a drill to allow the target to be opened in the existing report as a popup or modal.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Add prefix or postfix to the report name upon saving the report.

We have a request from user. When the user enters a name to save the report in Cognos Analytics, is it possible to have an option to add some text (such as FOUO) to the report name either before or after what they enter?
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration