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As part of AFT application, we found issues with Automatic Distribution of Outound Transmissions by the distribution scheduler. We raised PMR# TS004448402 for the same. As per the PMR updates, the product is working as designed and required by ACH. But we see there is some scope of improvement here as mentioned in details in the PMR.

On doing test-cases surrounding "Automated Distribution" issue, we found that if a processing batch is "Not Ready For Distribution" and all the transactions inside that batch are either in Held or Rejected status, then Distribution Scheduler works...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Planned for future release

Distribution key support for accelerator-only (AOTs) tables missing

Db2 PTF UI72862 introduced a new DDL feature to support distribution keys for AOTs. This doesn't work in the current Administration Tools Version. The DDL comments containing the distribution key definition for the AOT should to be passed to the a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Use etc/UTC as the default timezone

Currently CDC uses Atlantic/Reykjavik as the default time zone - because "it is equivalent to UTC all year round." Better would be to use etc/UTC because it is UTC. https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/etcetera At some time the Icelandic folks mi...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

PARTITION BY clause should be available to create DPSI of Index on expression

IOE (Index on expression) can be DPSI, but when we specify PARTITION BY clause in the DDL to create partitioned IOE, it is failed by SQLCODE -628 in DB2 V11. We can create DPSI of IOE by the following DDL. CREATE INDEX TEMP.INDEX2 ON TEMP.TABLE2 (...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Audit policy with userid after a DB2 recycle.

Audit trace starting as per audit policy after a DB2 recycle does not contain USERIDs as per original trace. This is causing change captured SMF records due to a DB2 restart. Is it possible to update the audit policy system to capture trace qualif...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Import Catalog metadata from a CSV file from the Desktop

When I try to upload a CSV file from the desktop that just contains column names and no data, the catalog cannot display the column names because it seems to think the file empty. The workaround is to add a few rows of "data" to the file to make i...
almost 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Knowledge center should load content of previous and next articles automatically

When navigating the Knowledge Center, it is necessary to click on the left panel every single article. Some of them are very short to read, and it takes a lot of time to reload the whole page just for a single article. It would be easy if by click...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

GPU Usage for charge back

Chargeback report in LSF explorer reports usage based on slots that are tied to CPU cores. Deep learning experiments use CPUs and GPUs, we need chargeback to include GPU usage so that the target users/departments can be charged appropriately.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Min & Max Values for Axis on Visualizations Disappeared for Active Reports in Cognos 11.1

Since migrating to Congos 11.1, we are noticing that the ability to set minimum and maximum values for an axis on visualizations is no longer an option after migrating to Cognos 11.1. Would like to see this option available again.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Include multiplier operator on filter

The multiplier operator only works on the query paramter. -https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery?topic=discovery-query-operators#multiplier It would be useful if it could be used on the filter paramter or at least specify in the documentation that ...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Functionality already exists