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Remove the option of Classic View from Cognos Analytics for all users

There is an option to go to Classic View when creating a schedule. We need to remove this option since the Classic View UI has the look and feel of Cognos 10 and can be confusing to some of the users. Moreover all the functionality in classic view...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Self reference !ThisCube name in rule file

Create !ThisCube as reserved word in TM1 for rule file that works as a self reference to the cube name the rule file is created for. The result would be that the rule file can be distributed without need of manual modification. When working with m...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Support filtering on columns with encoding

Filtering in subscription does not work if target encoding is involved. We need this feature to be able to filtering on the source system to reduce the replicated data volumn. Otherwise many records have to be processed by IIDR to the target syste...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Add a way to pre-encrypt db2 user password before adding it in response file to do db2 silent install.

We are OEM customer to provider our user Db2+Cognos installation, we're using db2 silent install with a response file, for now, there is no way (no tools, no command) to encrypt a plain db2 user password so that we can add this encrypted password ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade / Security 0 Not under consideration

User Membership Summary

It would be of tremendous benefit to be able to see, for an object of type user, role or group, a summary of all the roles and groups to which the object belongs. It actually seems pretty odd that this functionality apparently does not exist out o...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to select a Contribution Version for Control table E705 (Indirect Minority)

In the Control table E700 (Direct Minority) it is possible to select a Contribution Version but for the table E705 (Indirect Minority) it is NOT possible to select a Contribution version. It is only possible to select a Closing Version. This is re...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Add Effective Memory Utilization to All Statistics Tables

RTM maintains a consistent set of ETL's across multiple dimensions. It is the same table structure for all of these ETL's. However, a key metric is missing from the ETL's and it's the effective memory utilization. In other words sum(max_memory) /s...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

PAW rows or columns synchronization

It could be very usefull to synchronize explorations by dimensions in rows or dimension in column. For instance I've 2 cubes with a same dimension, if I display this dimension in row with element A B and C elements in a first exploration, it could...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Ability to change the default location of saved report in Report Authoring

By default when creating a new report and you select a package. The report is saved inside the package. We want to change the default location globally, for example in my content or not inside the package but other location.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Allow CECD0015E to inform user where error was found

CECD0015E error message is cryptic at best. It does not allow the customer (user) to make any determination as to the cause of the error or the ability to fix the error. In order to currently fix the error, the user MUST contact IBM with JESLOG an...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration