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Reports pdf and excel needs to be WCA compliant

Reports pdf and excel needs to be WCA compliant
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Content Manager should wait for the Database during initialization

During the content manager initialization, if it cannot connect when it attempts to access the database for the content store it will log an error and exit. Instead, it should go into a wait loop where it tries to connect every X seconds up to a m...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CREATE or REPLACE VIEW

After a DROP Table the view still exists, but it will only be invalidated;when the base-table is re-created any references to view will re-validated. Privileges for the View are still valid. This mechanism already works for DB2 for LUW where one c...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Provide N-Access for IN-lists containing non-column-expressions

Hi SAS-Queries of generate queries containing the following type of predicate:IN (YEAR(CURRENT DATE – 1 YEAR), YEAR(CURRENT DATE))Unfortunately this expression is not indexable
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to build transformer cube on cloud server

On CloudBI users create cubes on premises and then transfer MDC files to a SFTP server. The time to build a cube is higher especially for clients with data in soft layer.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support of Differential Refresh on DB2 for IBM i

To support differential refresh on DB2 for IBM i. Truncating tables on IBM i is very difficult given the locking mechanism and locking requirements the TRUNCATE or CLRPFM has on that platform. This makes Differential refresh a great alternative to...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

to determine that the element following the current element is an element in the tables being accessed and not a ‘rename’ and generate an error message

Currently, when compiling a Cobol program if a comma is missing from the second to last field in a SELECT the DB2 pre-compiler will not give an error because it treats the second table element as a 'rename' this creates problems because no error i...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Root Folder by tenant for Multitenant Installations

Currently you can specify a custom folder for a tenant and it shows on the menu bar, but it is still referenced under Team Content as a sub-folder. We have the scenario where we have our base content that needs to be deployed on a per tenant basis...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Salesforce.com Data Source Connection Updates

Update for Cognos 10.2.2 and above. Update API version used for Salesforce.com data source connection. 10.2.2 leverages API version 18 which Salesforce has expanded the objects available within the connection in later releases.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use Cognos Analytics security groups to limit access to different Cognos Databases

When authenticating cognos controller users against the cognos analytics security (linked to AD) using CAM authentication by default every user in the Cognos User group has access to every data source configured in the Controller configuration. It...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release