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Calculation of Company Vote %

System currently does not calculate Company Vote %.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

304 VLDB - Altering Indexes to Change PIECESIZE Not Online

Change the PIECESIZE of indexes puts the index in rebuild pending status. We need the ability to increase the PIECESIZE where index compression alone is not sufficient to scale an index.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support for Custom URL within File connector HDFS

We need to import data files and folders as well as the file structure to IGC from Atlas HDFS, which is not possible when using Custom url.
about 4 years ago in DataStage 4 Not under consideration

Missing OK Button on Passive Modals

Passive modals previously presented an "OK" button to the user to close the message. The "OK" button has been removed and there is no configurable option to add it back.
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Fuzzy phrase query

The customer requires phrase query using fuzzy character "∼". For instance, "homicides with firearms"∼1.
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Show Member Unique Names in Member Tree in dashboards (on hover or as property)

Provide property for every member in the tree in dashboarding using OLAP sources to see the MUN (member unique name). Show it also as popup on hover. Its absolutely crucial to see the mun to uniquely identify the right element as captions are not ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Modification of SCD Stage to allow custom date specification

SCD stage inserts new rows (type 2) with the effective date derived from runtime. This is sufficient for updated rows. We would like to specify a different date for initial records.
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Documentation for @AVE function

@AVE function is not existing in Expression Builder's function list and there is no description about this function in Modeler documentation. Currently sample stream condlearn.str which used in Modeler Tutorial has a derive node which uses @AVE fu...
about 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 3 Not under consideration

UDBR - .setRelativePeriod for target

UDBR issue:.setRelativePeriod not working for target, only work for source. We would pretty much need it for Target as well as we only want it to happen on specific month. for example we want it to happen every year July , target1.setRelativePerio...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Increase (over current limit of 10000) the value for Zparm MAXARCH

Is it possible to increase (over current limit of 10000) the value for Zparm MAXARCH (archive log volumes that are to be recorded in the BSDS). Our Production System sometimes cuts over 5,000 Archive Logs in the business' standard Image Copy reten...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration