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Ability to rotate encryption at rest keys on the Engine

Corporate security has requested us to change the EAR keys on demand as they see having the same key as a security risk. We would like to see a feature to change the .sth and .p12 files in an easier manner.
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

no "ok" button when changing properties on a report

There is no "ok" button after changing properties on a report. You aren't sure if the change was applied after it's made. The button existed in Cognos 10.2. Sometimes the change is applied and sometimes not. You have to go back and check.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automatically Populate Values in Select and Search Prompt

Add a property to the Select and Search prompt to "Automatically Populate Values"
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Need a hit counter for the PAw reports

We want to know what PAw reports are getting looked at by users. So a Hit count would be very useful to let us know how many persons are using the report
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Applying NLU enrichments on the question

Many times, customer assumes that WDS will apply enrichments to the question also and use that to help in search. This is not currently the case. WDS need to have a way where by default (or by config) NLU enrichments can be applied on the question...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Reorg on criteria

Add new option to allow the reorg utility to discard / keep rows during the reorganization
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Allow MAX_PDQPRIORITY to be configurable per user.

We want to Informix to be able to use PDQ but we would not want 3rd party logins to be able to use PDQ and impact processing. The existing onconfig parmeter should be a default is it is not defined for the user.
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

CDC Management console: Prevent starting subscription when sub is locked

It is possible to start a subscription in a lock state. When a CHCCLP script tries to lock the subscription, the script fails ("Subscription Already Locked"). By preventing the start of a locked subscription, will prevent this.
11 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

CDC - automatically add new column to table mapping.

Enhance the product to when a new column is added to the Source Datastore (DB2), and the column exists in the Target (Oracle), CDC adds the column automatically to the table mapping, without stopping the subscription. Similar to QREP ADDCOL For ex...
11 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to print the send any report output to a separate file.

(This option will become unnecessary if Option to remove or not display “Repl >” tags is implemented.)An option to print the report to external supplied filename, separate from the output. Name could be supplied by a “set variable” or pass as a...
11 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration