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Cant create a db2 service

Can't create a db2 service
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Hide "What's New" banner (home page) for group of users

We would like to show "What's New" banner for some groups of users and hide for another. It would be nice to hide the banner base on user role or group.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Interactive Elastic Distributed Training notebook in Watson Studio

Watson Machine Learning Accelerator Elastic Distributed Training (EDT) simplifies the distribution of training workloads for the data scientist. Deep learning experiment in Watson studio provide the UI to submit job in WMLA , but this is not inter...
almost 3 years ago in Openscale 0 Future consideration

Handling unsupported characters

Suppose an application tries to insert a character that is not supported by DB_LOCALE. Then instead of throwing an error, a pre-defined character (e.g. an inverted question mark "¿") should be inserted.
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Adding success message in Citrix Web page for password change

Could you please add success message for password change in IBM Citrix page as requested in IBM case TS006838901
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

External Stored Procedure sub modules to be loaded from same path as 'external name;

DB2 supports multiple (in our case development) databases within a db2 Instance and External Stored Procedures (in our case COBOL) can be developed in parallel by using different qualifiers in the external name e.g. alter procedure cxjjp.UIXN01 ex...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

blimits -n to select multiple limit name

blimits man pages says that's possible to select multiple limit names but it's not functional. can you please implement this functionality ?
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Suport of double dash for comments in SQL

Optim Connect should support the use of the double dash -- in sql statements to denote comments. I know you can put in comments using the slash asterisk. However, when the business provides us with SQL to use, they frequently have comments in ther...
almost 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Allow Archive to convert to CSV without license for Test Data

We have to provide files extracts for areas in the business. We would like to have the ability to give a CSV file extract of the data. Currently, you have to have a different license to run Optim Convert. We would like to be able to run Optim Conv...
almost 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Estimate time for archive

This may only apply for Retirement since we use all reference tables without SQL. It would be a nice to have if Optim could have a function to take an archive request and attempt to estimate the time required to archive. I see this as looking at i...
almost 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Application Retirement 0 Not under consideration