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Hide option for dispatcher URL from past activities under My Schedules and Subscriptions

My Schedules and Subscriptions menu item is typically allowed for all consumer users with scheduling capability. Under Past activities window, report run details shows target dispatcher (URL) report run against, which shows app server name/IP and ...
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Support list in field mapping for MongoDB Lookup Stage

Customer has raised a request to specify list (array) in the “SDC field” while defining Document to SDC Field Mappings in MongoDB atlas lookup processor stage. Usually we specify field names for mapping but here we require to fetch the records whe...
14 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Reorg Index materialization

For REORG INDEX pending alter materialization, the utility performs a DRAIN ALL on the target index before starting the SWITCH phase, and then relies on DDL/Dependency logic to invalidate all the affected plans/packages/DSC...etc in the middle of ...
14 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

In a UTS world shouldn't DSNUCH01 include DSNUM as 3rd column for this SYSCOPY's index?

In a UTS world shouldn't DSNUCH01 include DSNUM as 3rd column for the SYSCOPY's index?, since DB2 v12 all tablespaces should be defined as Universal Table Space, PBR or PBG. Segmented and Simple tablespaces are deprecated.
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Implement a possibility to configure the ctrlChars option for dataset storage in DB2

When we enable the dataset storage in DB2 and attempt to pull in data warehouse data into a dataset, we get a failure to store the data due to DB2 complaining about ascii characters below 31. CSV and Excel files seems to be stripped during upload,...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Developing and support for the c7i instance type in DB2 Purescale solution on AWS

The maximum number of EBS volumes (up to 30) that can be attached to current c6i instances that is supported with DB2 Purescale on AWS. The new c7i instance type offers support for up to 128 EBS volumes, which aligns perfectly for enhanced storage...
22 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

Drive Explorer - add disk space available and folder sizes

With the demise of RDP access to the Planning Analytics server and the local File Explorer access imminent, I have been trying to use Drive Explorer to do my usual server activities.I need to duplicate the Data Folder of a PA instance, however I c...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Removing LDAP Dependency to migrate IGC to IKG

The proposed enhancement aims to remove the constraint within the migration tool, eliminating the requirement for both the source and destination systems to be connected to the same LDAP. This flexibility is particularly beneficial for clients in ...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

Install TM1py directly on PA Cloud

Currently, the IBM policy does not allow installation of third-party applications on the IBM cloud servers. TM1py is a robust, proven, application-specific, community-supported python library that should be allowed as an exception to this rule. Th...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 8 Future consideration

Reduce shutdown time - allow for reduction of Db2 footprint before STOP DB2

As the Db2 footprint on our mainframe systems has increased (larger bufferpools, larger GBPs, more open datasets), one of the challenges we have faced is that Db2 takes longer to shut down. Our shop has recently focused on reducing down-time and i...
24 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review