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Set Synchronisation Group by hierarchy

Currently, Visualisations in PAW are attached to 1 synchronisation group This means that if you want to have 2 visualisations which are synched to the same sheet level selectors, except for 1 hierarchy where you want to used separate visualisation...
about 1 hour ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Access Transaction Log via Right-click menu

Would let users quickly and easily check the transition history for a cell without going into (or needing access) to a Workbench, and then having to set up the correct query.
about 1 hour ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

nzpy fails loading non-utf8 content

I would like to summarize my change request for the Python package nzpy (the Python driver for the Netezza database). Source code on GitHub: https://github.com/IBM/nzpy PYPI: https://pypi.org/project/nzpy/ When loading data into Netezza using EXTE...
about 3 hours ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Native server-side CURRENT_DATE() (or TM1System.CurrentDate) in TM1 MDX for dynamic, time-relative subsets

Dear team, Problem Statement IBM Planning Analytics relies heavily on MDX to define dynamic subsets in dimensions—especially time/date dimensions—used across: Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) explorations and books Reporting views and automated ...
about 4 hours ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Allow Redirected Recovery from System Level Backups

Currently redirected recovery is not supported for system level backups (SLB's). The Db2 V13 documentation states:"Restore of concurrent copies and system-level backups is not supported; these types of backups are ignored by redirected recovery".A...
about 13 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Efficient READA

I was monitoring a task in my product. This task executes a call to the READA service to obtain the current READA buffer when posted by DB2. I was monitoring to determine why the CPU usage by that task was high. My analysis determined that 99% of ...
about 16 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enabling a configurable dump directory for all automatically generated diagnostic files

Currently, Db2 does not support redirecting automatically non -FODC (EDU dumps, stack , “flight recorder” ) dump files to a custom dump directory; instead these files are always written to DIAGPATH. Enabling a configurable dump directory for all a...
about 17 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Job query LSF API should have a filter to control number of finished jobs returned by mbatchd in order to shorten runtime of RTM gridjobs poller

RTM gridjobs poller queries LSF for job information periodically. LSF CLEAN_PERIOD is set to 6hr, 12hr, 24hr for different clusters in Microsoft, number of finished jobs in mbatchd memory ranges from 200K to 1M. gridjobs parses finished jobs info ...
about 18 hours ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Submitted

Charge out model for CPD. Single Tenant, broken down by business unit, broken down by country........

Customers have been asking for a charge out / charge back model for a while. Ritesh Gupta is aware of this request.
about 21 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Python version 3 for in stream scripting functionality

The SPSS in stream scripting functionality is still running with Python 2.7.2. This is long out of official support. It would be good to have an official solution to use some more modern Python 3 version.
about 24 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted