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Support for Microsoft Office 2019

Our customers want to use Cognos Analytics together with Microsoft Office to use analytic insights within office products like Excel, Word and Powerpoint. Currently (as of 22th of Oct 2019) latest version of Office 2019 is officially not supported.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Provide a new bind-option to provide values for the remark-column in SYSPACKAGE

There were several discussions regarding APPLCOMPAT and providing a value that a customer can easily see that a package was bound a level down. This request was refused by DB2 development, but another solution was acceptable. A new bind option can...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Exporting Data tables to excel or pdf

Hello, It would be very helpful for clients if they can export Data tables into excel or pdf documents. Currently you get an error message in the PDF or excel document.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Support multilingual data labels for non-directly referenced query items in DQM

When you have a multilingual Framework Manager package and re-use query items (for example with a join or query reference) in your report. The data item labels of this report will be, in contrast to CQM, not in the content-locale language (defined...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support for database SINGLE_USER mode access

Time to time there is requirement to be the only user on the database like drop and create database, but there are also users with system authorizations connected to database. Or there is product (even from IBM) like Maximo: https://www.ibm.com/su...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Add support for INFORMATION_SCHEMA views

In our company we are using PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL and DB2. All of database except Db2 support INFORMATION_SCHEMA views. There is pretty easy to write at least basic cross-database SQL to get info from database catalog tables except in Db2....
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Please add a built-in function to reverse a string

Currently to reverse a string, we have to create a udf. The syntax for a simple one was easily available on the SQLTips4Db2 blog .... which IBM has removed. I think Db2 on z has this, and some other variants of SQL out there include it. This is th...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Please add a built-in function for pi

Currently there is no built-in function for pi. It can be calculated using math on trigonometric functions, but this is mildly annoying. Pi is frequently used when working with different random variate distributions and other functions that are in...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Replacement of Rest API calls for XMETA information with database connectors for much much faster retrieval

Hello, My team is trying to run a job in Data Stage on ING Datalakes and it takes around 10+ hours to complete. Performance issue is generated by Rest API calls while retrieving data from XMETA, daily run being questionable due to this approach....
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Rows per page in HTML Reports - Say 1000 at global level

Require a way to load all the pages when run as HTML as their user do not like the page down or up options. currently they are using "Rows per page in HTML Reports" to reduce number of pages.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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