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Planning Analytics Workspace - Make shadowing of objects a native function

In other tools like PowerPoint and Power BI, shadowing of objects is a native feature. Can you make this a native feature for Workspace. Currently, we can do shadowing by importing it as an image, but from a maintenance perspective, layering of th...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Unable to add Row Filter for Column named as "DWA_Partition_ID (hidden)"

IBM Ticket Number :TS014807855 Issue : I am trying to add a row filter in current subscription. However, the filter is not working. I tried to add the same filter in SQL where condition and it is working fine. I am able to get the result. When sam...
10 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Outbound Transmissions Page - Please add filter option for "Transmission Definition" column.

Currently in FTM 3.0.5.4 and 3.0.5.5, on the Outbound Transmission page, the Transmission Definition column is not filterable. Several of the other columns are. The Transmission Definition column should be added to the filter options.
about 2 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Submitted

Db2 Connect Client steering thread recycle

Enhance Db2 Connect client for distributed workload. problem statement: Today Db2 DDF will close the connection to recycle the thread. This happens conditional (recycle-time limit, after Commit, no open cursors, other conditions). The client will ...
2 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Improvement to Report Bursting: Combine Different Outputs into a single email.

When scheduling a Cognos report you can ask for different output formats to be created, for example HTML, PDF and Excel. If a report is scheduled and the report output is emails then Cognos will conbine these different outputs into a single email....
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Provide Alerts on Long running Jobs based on the historic runs

Can we add a feature to alert DataStage batch administrator based on the history of long running jobs.
5 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Read On Standby (ROS) Access during Upgrade process LUW

During the version upgrade of Db2 LUW, the standby (ROS enabled) needs to be brought down - during the upgrade: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=udhadrhe-upgrading-db2-servers-in-hadr-environments-without-standby-reinitialization I wou...
11 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

Make RESYNC port secured

Why is it useful?Making the DB2 resync port secure will protect it from getting hacked or allowing unsecured connections to a port that could be used to serve data from the mainframe for nefarious purposes beyond two-phase commit work. Who would b...
8 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

Support SORTWK with EAV

We run a REORG on a tablepace (~5TB) with 3 IXs and need ~17TB sort space. One of the IX (an NPI) needs ~15TB. We had a pool with 30TB, but this does not help/count. Reason: As the allocation of the SORTWKs by DB2 is limited to 10TB (255 * the lim...
5 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

File Connector - Definition for Internal table Location

We need the table location to be optional when we define it as an internal table. When the location is not user-defined, the Datastage must define the create table command, but it does not need to define the location. This is important because the...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration