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Add support for XML and LOB in the ingest utility

Add support for XML and LOB in the ingest utility
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Map multiple tables in a subscription to a single target

Map multiple tables in a subscription to a single target Currently each table in the subscription maps and publishes to its respective target topic. This is not a short come of the tool, this is mainly due to the way application files are defined ...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Show shortcuts in Cognos Connection for Microsoft Office

When browsing Cognos Connection from MS Excel, the shortcuts to actual reports are not visible. Please, make them visible and enable drag&drop to Excel sheet. The reason is that our customer has separate folder structure - for developers - all...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Update CDC as to being able to replicate multibyte enabled columns without doing conversion when contained data type is single byte

RE : Case TS003082492 - December 2019 We’re replicating new files which now contains DBCS-Open data type columns. However, the contained data is single byte characters only. CDC/IIDR insist on handling these columns as Unicode and converting data,...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Access AWS Redshift via VPN

Currently WatsonStuidio has to access AWS Redshift via internet (public network). Requirement is to make this communication secured ( by VPN for example)
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 4 Functionality already exists

PN_STAGEBLOB_THRESHOLD - Set to 1Mb when first table containing BYTE or TEXT is partitioned by Round Robin

Currently, the PN_STAGEBLOB_THRESHOLD onconfig parameter is not present in the standard onconfig file, therefore it defaults to zero. It's absence also means that most DBAs will not be aware of its existence and the potential pain they are in for...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Access to Monitor Current and Past Activities without Admin Role

We are looking for a way to allow developers in our Non-Prod Cognos environments to have access to the Status tab of the Administration tool so that they can monitor their reports/jobs. We need a way to grant a capability to a Non-Admin role that ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Zero Downtime during Online CRM Application Migration

Problem Statement : Transaction 1 (T1) is intended to delete and subsequently insert few records to a table TB1. The business logic is like, this T1 should be open and not to commit as well until the end of delete followed by insert operation. ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Manage DSNX881I messages in DB2 generated from IDAA healthcheck report

Each time the IDAA healthcheck runs (multiple times a day) every DB2 connected to the box reports on all the problems including all the issues already reported previously but not yet fixed. This can mean a hundred or more emails generated daily by...
over 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

System configuration setting needed to define which Product master UI would be used as the main UI

Hi, Currently load balancer is forwarding our users to the base URL path https://www.pim-example.com and internally Product Master will show the Admin UI. I would like the Product master to have configuration setting that would define which UI (th...
about 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration