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Create an SMF record for the SQL statements executed via a REST call

Currently SMF records are not cut in DVM for SQL statements executed via a REST call.
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow OTHER CA environments report on TM1 database secured with mode 5 (CAM)

Currently, when a TM1 server is configured with IntegratedSecurityMode=5 (CAM), only that one CAM environment can report on that TM1 database. No other CA environment can query that TM1 database. To workaround that limitation, customers have to se...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Controller Web 'Refresh' button (to synchronise changes made in classic client) to be inside other tabs where 'Issues' are flagged (like the 'Reconciliation' tab) instead of only inside tab 'Intercompany'

There is a known limitation with Controller Web (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1167568, plus also case TS004629628) where if you make changes in Controller 'classic' client (for example to fix a reconciliation issue) then Controller W...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Image browsing in the Cloud version of Report Authoring

When images are uploaded via ticket to the standard CAoC ../images folder, they cannot be browsed in the report author tool as WevDAV is not enabled/available for this folder. Please can WebDAV be made available to this folder.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

LSF Explorer support for multiple clusters with the same name

Customer has multiple clusters with the same cluster name. Changing LSF cluster names to be unique is not an option. Their environment is large. Other products in the LSF family support this. LSF_LIC_SCHED_CLUSTER_ALIAS addresses the concern for L...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Not under consideration

Support or warn of null (linklisted) DB2 STEPLIB and RUNLIB

DB2 Admin Tool customization via IBM TCz (IBM Tools Customizer for z/OS) requires the user to specify both the ‘DB2 load libraries’ and the ‘DB2 run library’ for each DB2 subsystem. There is no 'option' to specify: 1) A single set of libraries for...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Tools Customizer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

missing parm for forceFullReload (or detectChanges="PARTITION") in IDAA loader

According to Stored Procedure Guide V7.1.7 :The forceFullReload attribute is deprecated because detectChanges="PARTITION" withoutpartition list has the same effect as forceFullReload="false", and omitting the detectChangesattribute and a partition...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Permit relative proportional spread using a consolidated element that has negative weighted elements.

Let's say you want to spead 10000$ over 12 months in broker fees and you want to base your spread on net sales (a level 2 element for example). If the net sales has deductions for transport (weight is -1), you will get an error stating that there ...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

I hope add 'UPDATE CASCADE' like 'DELETE CASCADE'.

System: BASActor: DBA and Developers.
over 8 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

DB2z Sequencing support in IDAA for surrogate keys

In many data transformation flows, surrogate keys are required for dimension tables for example. One common technique for generating surrogate values is to use database sequences, particularly when utilizing SQL-based transformations. Currently se...
over 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration