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Add mouseover tooltips to lists in reports

I need the ability in Cognos 11 to add mouseover tool tips for items in a list. This is needed to show the definition of the metric in question.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bursted report output versions not sorted by burst key and not sortable

The report output versions of bursted output appear to be in no particular order. in Cognos 10.2.2 they were sorted by burst key. We need to have them sorted by burst key.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add "IF EXISTS" syntax to all DROP statements

More and more SQL is stored in repositories and needs to be applied in odd places and orders. One syntax element that supports this is the "IF EXISTS" on a drop statement. This causes a statement to not count as a failure if it finds no object to ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Filtering view based on element attributes

Users often have to slice and dice data in views and visualizations for analysis and data input. Today you either have to open the set editor to filter elements, use a selector widget or place the dimension on the canvas for easy selection of spec...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

BACKUP INCLUDE LOGS should add logs to backup image as soon as they are closed

Today the log files get added to backup image at end of backup, which could easily cause that log files need to be retrieved from archive that they can be added to backup image. Adding the log files as soon as possible would avoid time consuming a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Support for Oracle DB name change with CDC Target

We would like to have a means to change the Oracle Database name for existing subscriptions within Infosphere Change Data Capture. When our Oracle database migrated to the Exadata environment, the database name changed which required dropping and ...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under 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.
12 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...
12 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...
12 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to print the “monitor replication” as comma separated report

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to print the “monitor replication” as comma separated reportA option to print reports in comma delimited format. For example: the “monitor replication” prints a formatted report, but would like to receive the report in comma ...
12 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration