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Enable DSNTIAUL to generate NUMRECS in the punchdataset

The UNLOAD using DSNUTILB generates the NUMRECS parameter which makes the Allocation of Sort/Workdatasets for the Load utility very effective. Because some collegues use IKJEFT01 (DSNTIAUL) for unloading data, we tried to use NUMRECS here also. Bu...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Keep 3rd Party Software Current

We have discovered 2 third party products that run inside DSM that were not the current version. One was running with an expired date. Apache Derby and Websphere Liberty software were found to be running old release levels that are not being updat...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Improve Look, Flexibility and augment the properties on Interactive Dashboard and Visualization (IDnV) Prompts

PLEASE start improving your PROMPTS in your Interactive Dashboard and Visualization (IDnV) I've been at this since Cognos 6, 7 8 and 10You prompts are old and don't do much.AND YES, even though some IBM reps claim IDnV PROMPTS aren't important, th...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Advanced Search - "Exact Phrase"

Currently, Search Capability in Cognos works great but it returns a lot of stuff when we search for one particular keyword. So could you please add an advanced search option, where it only returns the reports with exact word that was searched.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

transaction log backup compress and encrypt on SQL Server

currently we are experiencing replication issues such as the one in PMR no TS009339747 with the error the transaction log backup is compressed or encrypted. IBM Infosphere Data Replication does not support compressed or encrypt. currently, why log...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration

Utility History Support

For the utility history support it will be a very nice feature to include a canned report option which gives the utilities that were running at a point in time for an object or a list of objects e.g. at a database level or currently in scope on th...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Change behaviour of default Fast Communications Manager (FCM) port

Change behaviour of default Fast Communications Manager (FCM) port https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/db2-db2-server-tcpip-port-numbers For Db2 Version 11.5.5 or older, the ports used are 60000 and higher. For example, ports 60006 - 60011 would be ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Future consideration

Require Support for Spark 3.5.x and python 3.11

Python version 3.11 is required and no current Spark versions support it
3 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Submitted

Support reading a CLOB field at least from DB2

Currently we have to cast a CLOB field as VARCHAR in order to read it into modeler from a DB2 source, and then we only get the first N characters. Please support reading entire CLOB as a string of size at least 256K characters or preferably more o...
3 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

use microcharts in the dashboard module

in the legacy report module it is possible to add microcharts in lists. This is not possible anymore in the dashboard module, and also not available as a new 11.* visualization. I would like the microchart to be available in the dashboard module a...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Submitted