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Email client support

Scheduled emailed reports coming out of Cognos Analytics 11 are getting truncated when viewing in email. The attached PMR ID has all of the screenshots. We've been told by IBM support that email clients haven't been supported in Cognos Analytics (...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics - Multi-Variable Calculations

Currently unable to define a formula as multi-variate and be able to hold one value, enter in another and have it update the remaining variableEx:Margin % = (Rev – Cost)/RevenueScenario 1 – Enter Revenue or Cost and have it update Margin %Scen...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing Prompt Functionality

When creating a new report using a "Data Module" as the data source, some prompt options are missing. This is a known issue under APAR PI87294 MISSING "SELECT & SEARCH" AND "TREE PROMPT" IN PROMPTING SECTIONUSING DATA MODULE TO CREATE A REPORT
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing.

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing. - Which statistics were looked at - Relative costs for table scan/index usage - Why a given index is not used - Which join orders are considered - Why join orders are excluded from t...
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Be able to 'Save As' processes to other PA services

For small scripts and testing we often test something out in UAT/DEV. It would be nice not to have to go through a whole migration process to save the process to production
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Visual C++ 2013 EOS

TS016714232 We've noticed that Visual C++ 2013 is a built-in component in Symphony package. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.0?topic=configurations-software-included-spectrum-symphony This has been EOS just since April 2024. So wh...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Future consideration

Include Greater Than/Less Than in Filter Condition

On a dashboard, we would like the ability to set a "greater than" and "less than" filter condition on a numeric value in a visualization.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use profile tables for local applications

We use profile tables successfully for different scenarios. In addition to remote applications, our DB2 IT infrastructure also includes local applications for which we also have profile table usage scenarios. For example, we set the explain mode f...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Future consideration

Allow third party front-end application

Product is "Planning analytics on cloud", not "Cognos analytics on cloud": We are currently working in the IBM Planning analytics cloud at our customers and trying to implement our standard solution “Apollo”. As we have our own front-end (MOSAIK...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Command to retrieve subset used in a view or change parameter interpretation of ViewTitleElementSet

We run into issues using ViewTitleElementSet. If a subset is used, ViewTitleElementSet needs to know the SubsetElementGetIndex. If there is no subset used, it needs DIMIX. So we need either a new command that returns a subset's name, which is used...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted