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Calculations -- FOR Loops

Calculations often require a long list of 'if/elif/else' statements (sometimes over 100 of them) to account for a lot of management of lists and larger inputs. Adding a For loop would significantly reduce the complexity and maintenance of large ca...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 4 Future consideration

Ability to select objects by package

Add the ability to add all the objects for a package instead of having to add each one. Current process is very inefficient.
7 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Shortcuts to reports should have similar functionality as the the reports they reference

In Cognos 10 we relied on using shortcuts to reference reports so that users could run a report easily without having to know the exact location of the source report. In Cognos 10, you had all the same run options on a shortcut as you did on the s...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

create dataset from report

Need the ability to create datasets from reports. Current feature only allows creation of data sets from package
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add a Trace Security in order to understand how a right is evaluated by the engine

As for business rules, PAL/TM1, security could be a mix of data and/or rules on the system security objects. For business rules, we can use the "trace calculations" which is really a great feature. For security, we can only use... our brain so a "...
over 1 year ago in Analytics Engine 3 Not under consideration

JDBC connection property currentSchema should be externalised in an IFCID

We have jdbc applications which have set the jdbc property currentSchema to determine the collection of db2 objects like tables, views etc. When we want to trace the application with a performance trace, we're not able to analyse the correct colle...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Decouple archive log purging from BACKUP utility

For databases using AUTO_DEL_REC_OBJ, at the end of the BACKUP utility there is a synchronous process which purges any history records and their associated archive logs. This can take a very long time on busy systems. It is necessary to decouple t...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

Glass interface for setting advanced settings improvements

Within CA Glass interface to set advanced settings you have to go to:Manage > Configuration > System > Advanced Settings On this screen you can type in a Key. If the key has been set then the value of the key will be shown. This is a very...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Monitor resource consupmtion per project on IKC

It is requested that the monitoring dahsboards of Cloud Pak for Data can display the resource consumption of the activities performed by IKC, including data quality rules, metadata enrichments, metadata import, etc. It should be consistent with th...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Submitted

TM1 Web/PASS calculation behavior/user experience

For current TM1 Web behavior, users still need to click Recalculate to commit the changes to TM1 after input value then able to get calculated cells refreshed/recalculated along with this action. But this is quite different from MS Excel behavior/...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration