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Need to revisit timestemp for incremental backup

our database backup size approaches 17 TB on a very busy system. When we attempt to take a Level 1 backup with ontape, the database engine throws an exception indicating that the backup is too old. As a result, we are forced to take a Level 0 back...
2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

When restoring content with "CM.DEPLOYMENTINCLUDECONFIGURATION=True", offer an option to merge the configration parameters from the old to new dispatcher.

It is not always possible to deploy content to servers with identically-named hosts. Currently, all of the configurations (including tuning settings and advanced parameters at the dispatcher and service levels) are deployed into the "old" dispatch...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow Time Zone specification on Watson Pipeline schedules

When the time changes, our schedules run an hour later. We need to be able to define a time zone to use on schedules so this doesn't happen. This causes production scheduling issues.
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 1 Submitted

Need support for Teradata query banding in CPDaaS DV service

The Wells Fargo Customer Excellence team is chartered to build and deliver high priority analytic products. Wells Fargo selected IBM CPDaaS as their solution to 1) virtualize data from Wells Fargo's on-premise data sources and 2) build analytic so...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Python 3.11.x is not supported in IBMSC 2.5.1 spark 3.3.1

Currently Spark 3.3.1 does not support python 3.11.x, it requires spark 3.4 or greater. Please release IBMSC 2.5.1 support for spark 4.0 or higher at the earliest.
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Submitted

Provide an option for Deferred merge method in Snowflake destination

https://quickstarts.snowflake.com/guide/connectors_example_push_based_java/img/e5a0394034661f7.pdf Deferred merge is a pattern whereby you maintain a temporary or hot data table (1) with changed or new records for an interval of time. When that ti...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Please increase size of LAST_FAILURE_REASON column in Task Attributes table.

The SSM and SIM error log is saved in LAST_FAILURE_REASON column of Task Attributes table. It is set to 2048 chars currently. However, the error message is much longer than 2048 chars. So we can't see the whole error message in Task Attributes tab...
2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Submitted

Add ability to use Custom Templates when creating additional tabs

Users are able to create a template in Planning Analytics Workspace that can be set as the default when creating new books or selected when creating "book from template". This is great, until the user has to add additional tabs. When the user does...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Enhance Data Tables to add Dynamic Sort functionality

In other Business Analytics applications, their Table/List function set includes the ability for the user to click column headings to change the sort of the data. Data Tables doesn't have this available, which leaves it falling short to the compet...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Deactivate Reporting toolbar

We would like to have the possibility to disable the "reporting toolbar" in the viewer when executing the report. Before the 11.2 version, we had'ent not this toolbar in html output. In 12.0 we have the possibility to personalize a role and un...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted