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Global Setting for Default Saved Outputs

The current default setting for saved outputs on each report is 1. We would like to change that globally to a higher number, 5.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Better problem determination when error message is returned to the job submitter

When running a loader job that fails on authorization the submitter of the job does not get a proper message. The message emitted by the IDAA Loader is "HLOU5715E Unknown error during IDAA validation". This is in par with the famous Microsoft Wind...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Include Report Name and Description When Doing a Copy Specification

Hello, it would be great if the report name and description were included in the XML/report specification when copying to clipboard. This is especially helpful when using the copy and open from clipboard method for moving a report from one environ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

REST API for viewing and managing object permissions

Enables users/IT support to find the permissions required to access a folder. Enables automation for configuring object permissions. Deploying permissions as part of a pre-defined Request For Change Verifying/monitoring that permissions are accurate.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Support Google BigQuery for Mac

BigQuery and Mac users are increasing in entertainment industry or startup company. Supporting Google BigQuery and the SQL Push Back for Mac is needed to sell SPSS Modeler to clients.
almost 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

QUERY_ACCEL_OPTIONS (option 11), add V5 ONLY option

As documented below, QUERY_ACCEL_OPTIONS (option 11) provides two options only. Simply (for all accelerators) or (V7 only). Especially, for migrations projects from V5 to V7, if we had third option such as (V5 Only), this would secure the workload...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Multiple hadr standbys in ASYNC mode

At present HADR claims to replicate to multiple standbys. While technically true this is practically false. Since all standbys past the 1st one must be in SUPERASYNC once the additional standbys 'glitch' up they stop processing logs and never proc...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

GEN function with Db2 table as input

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over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

One to many compare

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over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

support SAML for web crawler

The option to generate documents for question answering by web crawling does not work for us as we recently disabled basic auth and now require SAML. Would be great if the web crawler feature supported SAML.
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration