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Standard forms with dimensions in rows in Controller Web

Many customers are using 2-4 free dimensions and have at least one standard form using dimension (expanded) in the row definition. This is not supported in Controller Web where you can have only one dimension in column (and another in filter).
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

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

Enable alternative authentication methods for S3 buckets

We’re currently working with a client on an opportunity that impacts multiple products, including watsonx.data, CP4D, Data Virtualization, and Data Gate. The client is eager to adopt our lakehouse solution but has stringent security requirements t...
about 1 month ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

underscore character in "endpoint" name

in IBM planning Analytics Cloud, under Satellite Connector, when try to create endpoint, underscore charactor is not allowed in the name. can you support allowing endpoint name to have underscore character?
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Initiate (nz)genstats after NRS differential restore run

Actually there is are no statistics on NRS replicate side. In case of a failover genstats must be initiated first before database can be used for production.
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

late-binding RunProcess parameters

We currently have a generic TI process that is able to execute asynchronous processes in series or parallel via tm1runti.exe. This approach allows for datatypes to be defined at runtime: tm1Runti -i ..\TM1ProcRun\tiprocess.config -connect SERVICE ...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

DMC alert on timeout , deadlock

it would be useful to have an alert that sends an alert message as soon as a timeout or deadlock appears in the db2diag.log (ex: error message ADM5506W)
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Deltas on Reference Data Sets

We would like the ability to see the changes made to a reference data set in a downloadable csv/excel file. The activity log shows the information on the screen, however, this is not very helpful when analyzing the changes or keeping audit trails ...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

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

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