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Excel .xlsb Output Format

Please add the Microsoft Excel .xlsb binary file output format as an export option in Excel. The current file output formats do not reduce the file size enough or strips all formatting.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The DataStage Balanced Optimizer does not support range lookups in lookup stage

Jobs that contain lookup stages that contain a range lookup, when optimized do not have SQL generated that enforces the lookup range. Response from IBM Support case (TS001477845) is to open RFE as DataStage is working as intended.
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add an Admin tool that is user Friendly in maintaining Roles and Capabilities

Add an Admin tool that is user Friendly in maintaining Roles and Capabilities. It would help in maintaining a clean, healthy and effective IBM Cognos BI environment. You currently has less to nothing as a tool to see all roles and capibilities. Ca...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use of temp folder

My suggestion is that the themes and extension are not temporary and do not belong in a folder called temporary it causes confusion and difficulty when diagnosing. These should be moved to another folder outside the temp folder.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Ability to delete users from Manage > Accounts > search results

Currently deleting users from BlueID namespace can be accomplished by navigating to Manage > Accounts > blueID and scrolling through the list of users to find the one to delete. Then the Directory Administrator needs to click the ellipsis be...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow changing of S3 Prefix for onbar backups

Scenario is you have 1000+ sites to backup all with the same informix server name. instead of changing the informixserver name you can set prefix on the onpsm backup. this allows for reducing the amount of buckets for this setup in cases where you...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Optim zOS: Support for IMS DB (Insert) where segments have exit routines with DB2 statements

Opitm zOS - We have IMS DBs of which some segments have exit routines that have DB2 statements - Purpose of these exit routines is to keep IMS segment data in sync with DB2 tables (when a Insert / Update / Delete happens on a record in the IMS seg...
almost 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 2 Future consideration

Add configuration setting to stop saving the descriptor file when a report is saved to the file system

a configuration to avoid the creation of the XML descriptor file when creating the output file (example: My report-en-us.pdf will have a descriptor file named My report-en-us_desc.xml)
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Category updates not reflected in Audit History

Currently Item audit history table only keeps changed attributes information, for example old value/new value of attributes. Category mapping information are not captured. This feature is not there in the product. Users update categories in workfl...
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Add support for native Aziure Databases - Cosmos

Many companies have slowly implemented a hybrid cloud architecture. I am the lead TDM engineer at GM and we have no solution for native azure db's - Cosmo
almost 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

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