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Enhance TRANSLATE working on character basis

The current TRANSLATE function is working on Byte Basis which is OK for EBCDIC but not for Unicode Data. Please provide a similar function as SUBSTRING which is working on character basis regardless of Underlying codepage! PMR23932,060,618
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Automatic transfer of parametrizations and new versions

Currently, all parametrizations, made in test environment, have to be transferred manually to production (the parametrization has to be repeated). The same is for version transfers. We would like to have a process for automatic transfer. The requi...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration

Ability to do semantic search

Currently first level search in WDS is based on term overlap which can be improved with relevancy training. The term overlap can be improved with query expansion. Now for a query on "car", customer also wants to retrieve documents on "Vehicle", "M...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Missing "DROP PERIOD" possibility

Regular there is a request that we have to read certain data in a consistent state (e.g. likewise moving customer data from one DB2 environment to another) even while concurrent workload is still active and running in parallel against the same set...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Close notification email for ap issues

Customers are using CP4DS/NPS. However, this system has many false positive alerts. The customer has to confirm the alert every time. If the alert auto-close is emailed, the customer's work is reduced.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement of compression algorithm used by DB2

We have noticed that the compression ratio (PAGESAVE) for first partition of a Partitioned TS is 0% after running an IBM Reorg Utility. The reason why PAGESAVE/compression ratio for that first Partition is 0% is caused because many initial rows in...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow to access a database during a pause in a roll forward

During a roll forward, it will be helpful to access the database in read mode in order to identify the point where to open the database. If it is not the desired point, then apply more logs, until find the desired point.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 Not under consideration

Issue in expanding of filter area in report studio

While developing report ,instead of having lot of space available ,the filters do not gets expanded. Three dots appears after some text .Screenshot attached for better explanation .
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CA 11.0.5 with Siteminder - URL contains invalid characters ('~')

we have to check the possibility to provide the Cognos Analytics 11.0.5 Installation on our Windows Environment (2 tiers - Web and APP/CM). On the Web(IIS 7.5) is Siteminder WebAgent Running. After Configuration we are trying to login and receivin...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Abbreviation for REFRESH command in Autonomics Concole

Please add "REF" as an abbreviation for the "REFRESH" command in the Autonomics Console within the Db2 Automation Tool, particularly on the HAA$ALR3 panel. This panel is used to display the autonomic actions within a maintenance window. It is very...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration