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breadcrumb trail in Report Studio

Previous versions of the BI product allowed for bread crumb trails to be created within the report to showcase the drill path that you were currently on. The technote here: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21470373shows a way to ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

XML, XMLMODIFY, Rename a tag without loosing data

The possibility to rename a XML-Tag without loosing data in one single step with XMLMODIFY or with xmlquery as in LUW:Example 1:UPDATE EOBK.SMXML SET XMLDATEN = XMLMODIFY(' rename node /RECORD/FREMD_EROEFF_DAT' as "ABSCHLUSS_DATUM") WHERE SPARTE =...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Folder structure within Cognos Mobile App

The ability to create a folder structure within the Cognos Mobile App so that the entry screen to downloaded reports is not cluttered and can be organised into groupings
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DSNTYPE(PIPE) support for TEMPLATE utility

Would like to be able to dynamically allocate a z/OS Unix Named Pipe via the TEMPLATE utility. LOADing to and UNLOADing from named pipes is extremely useful, for example, to copy data between different Db2 systems on the same z/OS image. In JCL, t...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

User Last Name field is empty in OpenPages

The users who get synched from Cloud Pak for data to Openpages should have proper first name and last name. Currently in Openpages full name going as first name and last name with empty value.
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas 2 Not under consideration

Auto update capability for Reporting Feature.

As of now in the Reporting feature when we try to start a reporting for few catalogs and projects and it's successfully gets completed after couple of hours and it will be idle, so here the ask is after the Reporting gets completed, next day I'll ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Need MDE execution statistics as like MDI in Reporting feature.

In current ICP4D v.4.6.5 reporting feature, after reporting gets established for catalogs/projects, etc. in the target database there is a table for MDI called metadata_import_executions but we didnt fine any similar table for MDE. So the request ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Request to Limit Connection Creation Process to the Source DB while running MDI/MDE

For Example: We have an Oracle connection with a limit of 20 User Sessions per user. When we try to run an MDI Job using the Oracle Connection, The MDI is exceeding the limit of Sessions ~20, here the problem is we are running this MDI/MDE on the ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

ALL: Improve password encryption

Improve the password encryption between the agents and Access Server.
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Functionality already exists

Rebuild Index Utility - early checking for Read-Only-Tablespaces requested

Please check Restrictions earlier and stop starting and running Utilitys that cannot be finished.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Is a defect