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TM1 cube views description box and hover-over

In TM1, users and admin create cube views and attempt to save it as a relatable and coherent name such as Variance_Bud_Act_2017, and sometimes just Discretionary_Exps and so forth. With the more frequent use of CAFE and soon to be PAx, all of thes...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

New National Language Support data type with variable size greater then 255 bytes.

The current NVARCHAR data type supports maximum of 255 bytes. In case of use UTF-8 it's not sufficient becuase it means to store about 127 UTF-8 characters.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

WKC metadata interface to Power BI, Powercenter, and similar

A semi-seamless integration should be developed between the WKC data catalog and various external tools, including MS Power BI and Informatica Powercenter so that during design of data pipelines and products, and during product usage, underlying m...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Default access to All Users

Enable default pre-selected access to All Users irrespective of what AD groups they are members of or not.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

When a Benchmark job fails It would be nice to see the bsub used to submit the job

We can manually construct the actual bsub, but it would be nice to be able to cut and paste it when editing the Benchmark job so we can test that it actually will work. In one case we were getting "Queue Permission Errors" and it having that bsub ...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Export Job should allow for customization for sorting of data by attribute

When exporting the file customization on order in which the data is sorted would be useful for many purposes. Once example is sorting by oldest to newest so that loading the file into another environment allows transactions to be loaded in chronol...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Macro to get user groups and or roles in cognos or ad

For the moment in reporting and fm there are only macro that are able to get security information of the user logged in. Example:CSVIdentityNameList(). I would like to have a macro that shows roles and groups (at least inside cognos namespace)...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

transfer credentials for symphony child sessions

We are currently planning to use the recursive Symphony workload API. Our use case is 3 layers of recursion where the first layer is created by end users and the subsequent 2 layers are created by our application. Currently we cannot use the recur...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

ODBC, OCI and DRS connectors are failing if the source table column length are not matched with defined column length in the connector

In old OCI, DRS and ODBC, the stage won't check the column length of the database table and what we defined in the stage, and it won't give any warning about column mismatch and won't truncate the data if the given length is smaller than the datab...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Selection capabilities in PAW Modeller

I am finding the object tree in PAW Modeler difficult to use. It seems to have re-implemented some of the issues in Perspectives. What I would suggest is that instead of one continuous tree showing all types of objects, cubes, dimensions, etc, tha...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

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