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Wrong output format in Audit Table

Customer is asking for a more accurate audit logging in the area of output format. Due to a bug the only format being logged is XHTML also a ad-hoc report is executed in an different format.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Align Prompt Items horizontally

It would be great if there is a possibility for the Checkbox Prompt or Radio Button Prompt to align the dataitems horizontally and not just vertically per default. Sometimes it would be helpful to change the alignment to save space on the report p...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Provide an Option to break out of 'bsub' if a job will not submit due to a user hitting their pending job limit

This is a major problem when using a web service to control jobs, you would much rather have the binary end with an exit code than continually block in a loop saying you have reached your pending jobs limit. It's really bad design behavior IMHO.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add "recovering" state into spark-magic

If the Spark Driver itself crashes(Due to cluster or Job missconfiguratons) and Livy tries to restart it but failes, Livy will get leave the session in Recovering state and never remove it until the Livy Recovery Directory (Specified in /opt/ibm/d...
over 5 years ago in watsonx.ai 2 Planned for future release

Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - allow users to abbreviate multiple widgets at one time

allow users to abbreviate multiple KPI widgets at one time. As is, users can only abbreviate one widget at a time. Typically on a dashboard, there are multiple KPIs, and it's likely that if one needs to be abbreviated, all need to be abbreviated.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - when opening a data source, have a recents folder like in main navigation

when opening a dashboard data source, have a recents folder just like in main navigation
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Optim audit tables retaining too much data

In the table Optim_Audit_Records, I see 1-2 records per archive/extract/insert. This appears to have started in Nov 2017 about when installed optim 11.3. Yet we have Optim Auditing turned off. So it appears that maybe Optim 11.3 started putting re...
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Figures for group with cross-owned companies in the FAP cube do not match with numbers in Controller reports

When using FAP with General Configuration->Server Preferences the figures in MonthlyCompanyDetails FAP cube are different from the Controller Trial Balance Report - figures for group with cross-owned companies in the FAP cube do not match with ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

IDAA v7 uncrypted SSC dump files needed

When IBM asks customers to send IDAA dump files, SSC dump files are automatically encrypted when generated. Thus no way to see inside the encrypted files. Our policy (coming from regulation compliance) doen't allow us to send outside the company f...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

replication tool should be able to track the changes happening on the source during the refresh period and then replicate them on to target accurately or handle the conflicts gracefully rather than terminating the whole replication process.

At Goldman, Infosphere CDC is setup in such a way that it starts every day at 2:30 pm ET, refreshes the target table(s)and keeps them in sync from that point. We started seeing issues recently where Infosphere terminates completely saying that the...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration