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Exclude folders from Cognos search

All folders in Cognos 11 are indexed by the cognos search by default. So the consumers also get the search results from the internal folder of the report developers. 1) It would be helpful to exclude these internal folders from the cognos search, ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under 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

DIS UTIL could show also the Db2 Object involved

DISPLAY UTIL(*) is used daily, but it doesnt't show the Object involved/affected. This info is already in SYSUTILX so it seems to be possible to obtain it directly with the command Display. Currently, the DBA, Operator or Developer has to deal ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 4 Functionality already exists

create dataset from report

Need the ability to create datasets from reports. Current feature only allows creation of data sets from package
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

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

Capture DB segment replace calls which actual data is not updated.

Our client is currently using Dprop(IMS DataPropagater for z/OS) for creating Data Warehouse. Dprop captures replace calls and writes to PRDS(Propagation Request Data Set) even when DB segment was not actually updated. Client’s Dprop application p...
about 2 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Run a process based on a change in an element within a synchronization group.

Today, in order to create a guided experience for users we utilize a cube that stores user's current PAW book selections (which is then used to drive MDX subsets in the remainder of the book). It works very well except that users have to make thei...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 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

Allow the configuration of multiple users to access JDBC Gateway administrative console

As stated https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7124613 currently there is no option available to configure multiple users to access the JDBC Gateway administrative console.Only a single user (web client) can access the JDBC Gateway administrativ...
9 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Reference to the BSDS for example the full image copies of the CATALOG and DIRECTORY DB2 tablespaces which are not in SYSCOPY

There are several (4 in DB2 v12) catalog and directory tablespaces for which the full image copies are not referenced in the SYSCOPY.Thus, during a DB2 cat/dir recovery (recovery exercise or other...) these FICs are searched directly in the DB2 lo...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration