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Provide checksums for Fixpacks

From a security perspective it would be very helpful to be able to validate that the code downloaded from FixCentral is correct and has not been tampered with (or corrupted during download). Please publish md5 or sha2 checksums for Fixpack downloa...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Full support for VALUES c...

The VALUES clause in a fullselect in DB2 for z/OS supports only sequence references, whereas in DB2 for LUW, a VALUES clause may generate an arbitrary set of rows and columns. For example, to generate two rows of two columns in DB2 for z/OS, one h...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Kafka and S3 interfaces

Lack of support for Lineage Metadata Import within CP4D for S3 (or other object storage services) Lack of support for Lineage Metadata Import within CP4D for Kafka (furthermore, I don't even think Kafka is a supported connection type at all in CP4...
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Planned for future release

Filters on Schedule list

We can see the list of schedules by user, status and priority but having the option to look at schedules with a filter on the TRIGGER name would be really useful. It could just be a free text where "starts with" or "contains" would be the options....
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Allow all access paths in a cursor with FOR UPDATE

Due to the haloween-problem, some access paths are blocked for cursors with the FOR UPDATE-clause. Also for multi-row-fetch and FOR UPDATE there are restrictions if there is a IN-subquery
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Users can be select schema so as to choose the target tables of ETL connector stage easily.

Currently users should input the table's name so as to select the target table of ETL connector stage. It is very costly for users to input the full name of target tables without any guidelines such as schema information.
about 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

View object also should be add to the data transformation project as source data.

Currently view object cannot be added to the data transformation project as source data. However view object also added same with table objects.
about 5 years ago in Watson Query 1 Under review

Saved window sizes should be sanity-checked when opening

User opens a dataentry form in Excel and clicks to open the Intercompany popup. A window is opened and visible in the taskbar, but the user cannot access it in any way (but it can be closed funny enough). When unticking the 'Save window size' opti...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Allow admin user to monitor & cancel queries being run by other users

Users can initiate queries to fetch data that could result in long running queries which might use a lot of CPU time and affect the overall performance of the system. Only the user who initiated it can cancel the query. Need an enhancement to prov...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics - Lineage from Report Viewer

Include Lineage in the pop-up toolbox from the new viewer. So that report users can see the source of the data. Not just authors looking at data items in the package. This functionality is available in 10.2.2
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration