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Enable admin group access Admin Console

When group configure enabled in options.cfg, it should be able to set 'administrator, "Group"' that adding/removing members from the Group instead of changing options.cfg file.
almost 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Support bimages for podman

Hello, we want to enable users running podman to perform management of images downloaded by the podman. The management includes clean-up of images based on some policy like LRU or any other that user decides. I think bimages is supported for docke...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration

better support for filter capabilities

The Customer manages 100+ DB2 systems, they have to repetatively enter filter commands in the active thread display (so that only the relevant information is displayed) which is often quite different for different Db2 systems. They would like: a) ...
over 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSNHDECP usage

The DSNHDECP modules is currently used in our shop and needs to be created for every DB2 subsystem, or data sharing group. This means that we need to create individual SDSNEXIT libraries for each subsystem. We used to have one SDSNEXIT which held ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Would like OPT_SEEK_FACTOR as a session set environment option

In 11.70, a new "seek cost" component for index costing was introduced, the purpose of which was to more accurately reflect the cost for seeking in an index scan (when index is not clustered) for large indexes. OPT_SEEK_FACTOR is an undocumented O...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Expand Above instead of Expand Below when you want to Expand Above instead of Expand Below

In PAX Exploration views - Expand on rows with a TM1 subset that is set to “EXPAND ABOVE”, will expand below… should expand above. Development have stated that this is not a defect. By using the expand above in Architect it sets the subset t...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Table Values functionality

Is it possible to add following functionality to DB2 zos 10, 11 and IDAA 4.1 and above. Apparently it is supported in DB2 LUW. SELECT S.Year, Q.Quarter, Q.ResultsFROM SalesAgg AS S, TABLE (VALUES(1, S.q1), (2, S.q2), (3, S.q3), (4, S.q4)) AS Q(Qua...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Identify Flat File - Import of CSV using headers or file sample / also in batch manner

Right now my understanding is there are 2 ways to import csv files. The file connector and the Information Analyzer identify flat file. The file connector is cumbersome because i have to describe every column 1 by 1 and it is not really feasible w...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Alias for page/context elements in a drill through view.

There is no alias display for page/context members in a drill through view on PA Workspace Local release 27.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CDC support for SQL Server 2017 AlwaysOn clusterless availability groups

We use IBM Data Replication (CDC) to replicate data between SQL Server databases. However, we would like to improve read scale for our applications using SQL Server AlwaysOn clusterless availability groups. However, CDC does not support databases ...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration