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Allow File Connector to manage Hive tables properly when they are located in HDFS Transparent Data Encryption Zones

When the File Connector is configured to write files to an encrypted zone (TDE) within HDFS, with "Create Hive Table" set to Yes and "Drop existing table" set to Yes, jobs will fail if the table already exists. This is because Hive requires the PU...
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Resubmit functionality is not available for report in 10.2 format

Resubmit functionality allows user after entering parameters and executing report navigate back to parameters page with all parameters values entered before the run. This feature is available only when option 'Run with full interactivity' is set t...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Error Logs to be 'user preference' independant

In the COGSERVER.log and AUDIT database entries, we see that errors are logged in German if the user has selected German language in his preferences. While you expect the user interface to show in preferred language, the server logs are expected i...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Adding new values to CHECK Constraints should not put Table in CHECK PENDING

There are many instances today when existing CHECK Constraints have to be modified to add additional values. Currently, making any modifications to CHECK Constraints to add or remove values requires that the Constraint be dropped and re-created. T...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow customers to specify a name for SYSINSTL ID instead of forcing "SYSINSTL"

Currently, IBM allows customers to install Db2 for z/OS under Install SYSOPR authority. This requires that the customer specify "SYSINSTL" as the installer ID in several key steps of the DB2 Install CLIST. "SYSINSTL" is then used for definition of...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Human-readable status response

In the new multiobjective optimization support in CPLEX (Java API, but likely true in other APIs), querying status via IloCplex.getMultiObjInfo(IloCplex.MultiObjIntInfo.MultiObjStatus, ...) returns a numeric code (e.g. 107). This is difficult to i...
over 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration

Make CADataConnector API also available for ICP4DS

Notebook is available in Cognos Analytics 11.1 with CADataConnector API. It can be used for making connection to Cognos Analytics ( packages, reports and report output ) with read and write access.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 1 Planned for future release

Allow alt text for brandImage in theme customization.

The Cognos Analytics theme allows administrators to customize the text and images of the welcome page using brandText and brandImage. The brandImage contains the organization name and is very clear for visually acute users. To accommodate the visu...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Extend Role-based access control to data columns

We are facing the need to limit access to certain data columns/fields in LSF Explorer for certain roles. In our environment a few different teams will make use of the reporting capabilities of LSF Explorer in different scopes. Nevertheless, LSF Ex...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Support hierarchies in drill through functionality

The TI Function ReturnViewHandle utilized in that feature does not support MDX views which were the only way to include alternate hierarchies. So it is not possible to create drill through processes which respect alternate hierarchies. We need thi...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

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