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Send Scheduled reports with attachments to external emails

Currently in Cognos the ability to send to external emails(emails with no access to Cognos) is used and needed to send to outside vendors reports needed to conduct our business. We need this continued in version 11.1 moving forwards
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Avro Logical Data Types in Google Cloud Storage Connector Stage

Related to existing idea - "Support for Avro Logical Data Types in File Connector Stage"
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

Allow more options on -MODIFY TRACE command

We sometimes get clobbered with processes that generate lots of Db2 accounting records to the point where SMF is overwhelmed in collecting/offloading them. We are able to identify the offending authid with our online monitor, but until we can cont...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support for open jdk

Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 and future releases - Provide support for open jdk (current version) openjdk version "11.0.17" 2022-10-18 LTS Infosec requires the java version on our servers to be up to date and they scan the servers weekly.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Ease use of ROS in high volume transaction system utilizing DGTT on Primary db

Trying to utilize ROS to offload reports and heavy queries from Primary Database. Hence we should be able to scale the workload on the Primary, once these are moved away form here. But does not work out for us. Queries are getting forced off often...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Is a defect

Implement an automatic periodic repository sync

Implement an automatic periodic repository sync process that will keep repositories in two different LPARs or DB2 LUWs synchronized with datasource connection strings and Workspace contents.
over 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Categorize/Organize Filters for easier access

Currently the dashboard has drastically increased the requirements for more filters. These filters clutter the user's Gridviews with dozens of filters. It would be nice to be able to categorize filters as 'For Grid View' and 'For Admin/Dashboards'.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Deal with NULL values

I know that NULL values are never used in a DWH, as NULL is a non present value... however, we all know that there are some old bad ptractices where NULLs were used, and we the BI analysts have to deal with it... in this case, whenever a memeber s...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

set placeholders on a SQL statement to SAP Hana

Per the PMR, when Cognos generates a SQL statement to access a hana view with required prompts, the SQL generates a select *, not a select col 1,2,3. Support suggested this is expected behavior but it is less than optimal
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Small screenshot / sample of saved output object without opening or executing the object

This is just an idea I got when thinking about how do the report look, what columns are present, how can I look through a number of long running reports without having to either execute them or go into edit mode for each of the reports? What if, t...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

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