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Watch Rules: Ability to copy a watch rule

go to "My Watch Rules" > Rules tab. Look at the tool bar, there is cut and paste, but not copy.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow control of bufferpool selection on implicit tablespace create

Currently if you issue a CREATE TABLE and just specify a DATABASE, an implicit tablespace is created. It only uses the default bufferpool set at installation, panel DSNTIP1. Since the database is known, the default bufferpool specified for the dat...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

When we are scheduling the report via trigger, password should be hidden or we should be able to run the trigger without password

as you understand it is dangerous to hardcode password in a bat file where it is visible by anyone
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Fix the issue to show destination entity after merge/unmerge in visualizer v10.0 (same as V8.1).

In old visualizer 8.1, if an entity is merged to another, visualizer search directs to the destination entity. However, in Version V10.0, it doesn't direct to destination entity. Hence, leaving no trail of entity. Please consider to fix the issue ...
over 1 year ago in Identity Insight 0 Not under consideration

262-Photometric Interpretation 108-PhotoMetric Black is Zero actual value = 1 when the expected was 0.

262-Photometric Interpretation 108-PhotoMetric Black is Zero actual value = 1 when the expected was 0. Classic corrects the above tiff error and FTM does not.
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0

Localize attributes

With the Caption attribute it is possible to maintain translations for most objects like cubes, dimensions, elements etc. But is seems not to be possible, to localize attributenames. For example you have a dimension Product. This dimension has a...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Show a graph on Dashboard where we have to design a Graph which shows a Stacked Bars for multiple products in different colors and a Line as average.

Requirement to have a line showing the averages on a Stacked Bar graph which represents multiple products and the live representing the average. Business has been using Tableau Dashboard tool and we are migrating from Tableau to Cognos, Business i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Enable Cognos BI to integrate with FileNet CPE 5.2.1.5 and greater

Update the code to integrate between Cognos BI and FileNet CPE 5.2.1.5 and higher.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable customization of authoring perspective

The new black and white design in Authoring (Report Studio) has caused massive annoyance at some of our customers. The reasons given were: generally confusing color is missing in the icons windows (e.g. expression editor) are not clearly delimited...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

OPL shall generate concert model with column API

OPL fails at building very large scale models due to the fact that it uses a "row api" of concert : Variables are created and added then to the range constraints. Unfortunately, such API can become dramatically slow for very large models, and buil...
over 6 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration