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Be able to add or remove stages on a link in DataStage Designer

Currently when you want to add a new stage on an existing link, you have to deconnect the link from one of its stage, add the new stage and create a new link from that stage (remapping the Input columns to the Output, which is currently not possib...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

PAW Applications : ability to have a "Display" name for each asset in the application

Currently in the Applications feature the name of the assets displayed on the left navigation panel of the application is the exact name of the Book, View or Websheet being assigned. For design and organizational considerations the names of those ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Format / customize "Insert Filter Text" in reporting

The "Insert Filter Text" function does not allow any formatting. For example, the year (integer) will be formatted as "2.019". It would be interesting to be able to change some display options.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard Crosstab - Ability to rename 'Summary' row

For certain crosstabs, the aggregate or 'Summary' row as it is labelled is not always the ideal wording for the aggregate, and we have had users asking if it could be renamed in instances to 'Total' for example. This would be helpful from a usabil...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Improve user interface for Exception profiles

DB2 Automation Tool - Need to improve the interface for the exception profiles. 1) We would like to be able to document the profiles in more detail than is allowed in 1 line. 2) We need the ability to control the ANDing and ORing of the conditions...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

CLI to set property “Message Handler for Parallel Jobs” for DataStage projects

We use the property “Message Handler for Parallel Jobs” at project level in some DataStage projects. To define the message handler, we start the "InfoSphere DataStage Administor" tool, select the DataStage project, then button "Properties" and tab...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Support Multi-threaded LIM with a Shared Memory Database for Scalability

It would be nice if LSF's LIM used a shared memory database and could accept multiple threads instead of having to constantly fork itself to return client data. The new setting to increase/decrease the LIM connection backlog was informative, but i...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Restart Individual Services with one click in Cognos

When stopping and starting individual services in Cognos Administration without restarting all services, there should be a "restart" option in addition to "stop" and "start". It would start the service as soon as the service successfully stops -- ...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

eval(<string>) function within SPSS Modeler

The simplest to explain is the following screenshot: x1    x2    x3    Formula    Desired Column123    421    63    x2    421456    325    23    x1+x3    479789    634    75    x3    75 So the first ...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Override output email addresses

Ability to override the recipient email address (not sender as I know you can already do this).
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration