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Ability to Drill Through for all packages in multi-package reports

Drill through is supported only for the default package and unavailable for the rest of the packages used in the report. We would like to be able to define drill through links for various components built in a report with multiple packages.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add Legacy tools directly under New

Currently, Query Studio is under other applications, after selecting New, within the portal. An extension should be available to modify the "New" selections so that the legacy tools don't need to have the extra click to go through "other applicati...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 2 Not under consideration

File Encryption

We have a requirement to encrypt the file after extracting the data and push it to file transfer.
over 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Update DB2ZOS SCripts for Tables and Tablespaces to support UTS that is the DB2 Z/OS direction.

Current Cognos Analytics Configuration scripts like tablespace_db2zos.sql , needs to be updated to support UTS. This is the direction of IBM DB2 V12 and higher to use UTS tables and Tablespaces. One Table per one Tablespace. No longer use Shared t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

MFA should be supported when logging with Data Studio

Multifactor Authentication is not currently supported to connect to DB2 using Data Studio. We are using MFA (Factor TOTP) to connect to TSO, CICS and other products. However we cannot connect through Data Studio as it does not support MFA.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

If ADMIN_UTL_SCHED is used for imagecopies it should put the triggering jobname/CorrID into SYSIBM.SYSCOPY

If ADMIN_UTL_SCHED is used do to image copies it writes the name of the wlm-addressspace to the jobname columne of SYSIBM.SYSCOPY. We like to see the name of the triggering job/CorrID there, because we need this information. An alternative would b...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason

"LSF does not support reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason (about license)." Let me provide a portion of the bsub statement from our case to exemplify the customer's dilemma. bsub -R "rusage[mem=3000.00:duration=1m,md_r...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Allow dimension attribute to appear as a hover-over message or popup text for an element

Allow selecting dimension's (especially measure dimension) text attribute or an alias to appear as a hover-over message or a pop-up text if populated. The element which has a popup text can have a bulb-like icon next to it, to indicate that elemen...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Audit table not showing Client IP

The COGIPF_REMOTEIPADDR column of COGIPF_USERLOGON table not showing the machine ip of the user.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow load modifier options in db2move load (generatedoverride identityoverride usedefaults etc.)

Currently when using db2move utility to export from one system and load to another, there is no way to specify load options for any tables with Identity or Generated columns etc. for which we need to preserve the data values, and the db2move load ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration