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Lack of XML support in IDAA

Tables with XML are supported, but the XML columns themselves are not supported by IDAA
over 11 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Should be possible to schedule dataset refresh, reports etc using smartcard login together with Kerberos constrained delegation

Users are using smartcard login to CA. This means no username and pwd are stored in AD. Currently scheduling in CA requires saved credentials (username/pwd). On top of that the system is configured with kerberos constrained delegation. A solution ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

HADR: Ability to take incremental backups on either host and maintain the incremental chain for restore

In an HADR environment it is not possible to restore / recover the database with backups which are taken from both sites of the HADR cluster (after takeovers). You have to use the backups from the one site or from the other site. You can't mix the...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

PAX Context Filter for Dynamic/Custom Report to allow Filtering on multiple members

PAX only allows to filter on one member (for Dynamic and Custom Reports) for each dimension used as a context filter. In exploration we can use 'Allow sum in Context dropdown' feature to filter on multiple Context dimension members, but once we tu...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Require that symA wait for an instance to join the cluster before returning it.

Require that symA wait for an instance to join the cluster before returning it. Currently the symA can return an instance before join. We can control this behaviour with a config param, but the default should be to wait.
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Add native "Cloud Events" standard support to IBM Mainframe software products similar to "OpenAPI" support in zOS Connect

"Cloud Events" is becoming an industry standard for async messaging and event publishing similar to how Swagger/OpenAPI specification became an industry standard for synchronous APIs. This also adopts another standard "Open Telemetry" that enables...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

[OpenScale SaaS] The Japanese text in the vertical axis headings of the graph are upside down.

On the Dashboard - Model health screen, the Japanese words in the vertical axis headings of the graphs are upside down. - Throughput(API)- Latency (API)- Throughput(record)- Latency (record)
6 months ago in Openscale 0 Submitted

[OpenScale SaaS] The heading under the Quality tab on the dashboard is incorrect.

The heading under the Quality tab on the dashboard should be "Quality", not "Performance". Please refer to the attached screen shots. (JP, EN)
6 months ago in Openscale 0 Submitted

Mark an item to go to balancing function after payment repair is completed

Provide an ability to mark/identify an item in payment repair, so that the batch that contains the marked item will go to TCR, even though the batch is in balance. Right now, the user changes the amount to all 9999999999 in payment repair to force...
6 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Under review

Provide ability to update the extended MICR fields in the user interface

Provide the ability to update the extended MICR fields 9 thru 15 in the Payment repair and TCR functions. A use case can be to accept the currency denomination type (US or Canadian) for the items with Canadian routing numbers (RT format 5-3).
6 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Under review