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Drafts should be available in the reporting DB

Based on our explorations it seems that drafts are not synced to the reporting DB. We are using drafts, and they are needed for our reporting - if they are not in the reporting DB some of our reports will not work correctly.
about 13 hours ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

wca4z : AD Connect support bidirectional text conversion : possibility to retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters.

When retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters, the Arabic characters are written from left to right, instead of right to left. Today AD Connect does not support bidirectional encoding. example : AD Connect is configur...
8 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

Possibility to customize name of Settings during export

This is meant as a further improvement of idea DVMZ-I-214. When exporting Repositories and JDBC Library settings it creates a Settings.zip file, It would be useful to have the ability to edit the name, as already possible for personal data sources...
11 days ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

"lim -t" phrases for aarch

Referring to TS018491466. We obtain the following architecture details by doing the $LSF_SERVERDIR/lim -t on the AARCH machines. AArch64Processorrev2aarch64 AArch64Processorrev1aarch64 AArch64Processorrev0aarch64 And this looks to not be in phrase...
13 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Adding an option to paginate the API call: /api/v1/users?identifier={namespace_id}

I have a namespace that has grown to have over 81000+ users which has caused user load and removal process to run inconsistently. This is due to a timeout limit during the GET request. It would help the API efficiency to add pagination to the API ...
13 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

ALTER STOGROUP can run in parallel to applications => Deferred ALTER

We need to move a lot of page sets and hence a lot of data from one z/OS catalog to another and also to other stogroups and volumes. For this task we nned to ALTER the hlq of the page sets and move them via DFDSS FASTREPLICATION. Unfortunately the...
15 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

MERGE statement should respect table DDL's default values and specify column in Snowflake stage

When processing data with the Snowflake destination, it does not respect the target table's DDL for default values. For example, if the table has a column with the default value set to CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in Snowflake, the stage will just insert a n...
17 days ago in StreamSets 1 Future consideration

From Planning Analytics Workspace block the ability to Export (E-Mail) to External Email Address other than Organization's own domain

From Planning Analytics Workspace block the ability to Export (E-Mail) to External Email Address other than Company's own domain. It is a significant risk as organizations' confidential data can be sent outside of the organization. This has been f...
20 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Integrate hashicorp into FTM

FTM should have a direct integration to hashicorp so it’s just configuration for us
21 days ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Future consideration

Add Read/Write information to export of Where Used - Cobol Variable analysis

The Where Used - COBOL Variable analysis shows which statements will read or write to the variable. However this information is not included in the CSV export of the tree view. A workaround could be to filter the view on the statement types, but t...
28 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration