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unable to update an existing column with varchar definition.

a column defined as varchar returns an error "no more extents" when tried to update. Work around is tedious as we need to unload millions of records, then reload it again.
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Planned for future release

CHCCLP event monitoring restructuring

CHCCLP returns events from the oldest to the newest, with a limit of 10000 events returned. When using CHCCLP to monitor subscription activity, the intent should be to get the most recent events and current status of subscriptions, not the oldest ...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Planned for future release

Dashboard: Top and Bottom filtered values for every Row Repeat and Column Repeat in visualization

Currently, overall Top and Bottom n values are displayed in a visualization irrespective of the Row and Column repeat. For example, Dimension is 'Item' and filter applied on dimension is Top 10, Measure is 'Revenue' and Repeat Row is 'Sale Year' w...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Import from Staging Area - ability to import the same "file" several times

It would be very useful to be able to more easy rerun batchjob/importing a file from staging area. After looking at the Log report - after one import from Staging Area - it would be good to be able to rerun the report. For example if the period wa...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Allow DSN line command on panel ADB21T

In order to find out data set name(s) for a given table space , you have to be in panel ADB21S and type the DSN line command next to the relevant tablespace. If you have requested details of a table and you are in panel ADB21T, you cannot find out...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

MDM Beta: API to match subset of records or delta new records?

The APIs seems to only allow you to perform bulk matching of all the data to all the data. If it was extended to allow you to do matching for delta new records, like all records from a given date, or all records since last match, then it would all...
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Planned for future release

MDM Beta: Show time remaining when loading data or performing matching.

So far I get the impression that MDM Beta is slow. Because a user is phsyically waiting on the screen for something to happen, please show an indicator of estimated time remaining so they know if they should wait or go for a coffee break. If possi...
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Planned for future release

MDM Beta: Can't search for Legal Name Prefix when mapping because missing dash.

When you're manually mapping columns. If you search for Prefix it returns results, Legal Name it returns results. But if you search for "Legal Name Pre" it will not show any results. That is because it's missing a dash. So make the search more fle...
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Planned for future release

MDM Beta: Copy mapping from previously mapped file knowing that the file layout is the same.

Instead of mapping each new file again and again. If you're always using data in the same format, give the option to copy the mapping from a previously mapped file.
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Planned for future release

Lineage for Folder

In 11.1.7 FP1 there is no option to check lineage on the folder. This prohibits end users to see where the folder exist especially when we have nested levels and namespaces in a big package
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release