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Improve the performance of Teradata Connector when doing BULK read

Teradata bulk export of ~7 million rows from Datastage using TD connector takes over ~30 minutes as compared on using TPT export (that is also executed on the DS engine) which only took around ~3-4 minutes. The timing differences are significant, ...
15 days ago in DataStage 1 Submitted

lsf.conf documentation should report which daemon(s) need restart

Every time an lsf.conf entry is recommended by Support, I have to turn around and ask which daemon (or daemons) need a restart, which causes delay. The developers already know what daemons are affected by the changes, please document which ones ne...
29 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Planned for future release

Virtual Table Name should be longer than 50 characters.

When creating Virtual tables we decided as standard to maintain the default Target Virtual Table Name that is build as follow: ConncectionName_Schema_Tablename In some cases this turns out to be longer than 50 chars. and when trying to create it s...
about 1 month ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support SORTWK with EAV

We run a REORG on a tablepace (~5TB) with 3 IXs and need ~17TB sort space. One of the IX (an NPI) needs ~15TB. We had a pool with 30TB, but this does not help/count. Reason: As the allocation of the SORTWKs by DB2 is limited to 10TB (255 * the lim...
3 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration
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Ability to set size for Search & Select Prompt

By default the Select and Search prompt is a fixed size which makes it difficult for us to layout other components on our prompt page that align with this S&S component. Also, with its fixed size, it makes it difficult for us to render the pag...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Jobs API - have synchronous call to launch Datastage jobs

One of our customer (CNP in France) is evaluating the CP4D-DataStage. They have DataStage 11.5 and actually migrating to 11.7. They have a framework (BASIC code that orchestrates the DataStage jobs) that is the centerpiece of their DataStage proje...
10 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Db2Z INSERT with VALUES should allow multiple rows

Db2 LUW and many other RDMS allow one INSERT with VALUES to insert multiple rows at once. Db2 Z does not allow that syntax. Db2 Z INSERT with VALUES only allows one row at a time So if you have multiple rows you want to insert with the INSERT usin...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

enhance "Finding report dependencies" in Framework Manager to extend it to cover datasets

More and more clients are using datasets to speed up their dashboards within Cognos - the speed of the dashboard has always been that one thing where Cognos seriously is behind on other products like Qlik and PowerBI). Without this functionality C...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Localization support for Planning Analytics Workspace content

To translate cube, dimension and element names in Planning Analytics, it is possible to use the captions and language locale codes. For example, in PAW, the web interface and cube, dimension and element names are then displayed in the selected bro...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Extend Db2 Message monitoring IFCID 197 to include information about message tokens

Our shop is using ITM Situation management to heavily automate processing/notification for our customers and thus minimize the use of custom logic to be maintained (specific REXX programs etc.) . One feature that we leverage is the OMEGAMON for Db...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration