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Improve the performance of Teradata Connector when doing BULK read

Teradata bulk export of ~7 million rows from Datastage using TD connector takes over ~30 minutes as compared on using TPT export (that is also executed on the DS engine) which only took around ~3-4 minutes. The timing differences are significant, ...
21 days ago in DataStage 1 Submitted

Ability to exclude PBR partitions/TS PBG that had no activity before JCL generation

Recovery Expert should have an option to exclude objects/partitions from the recovery which had no activity. Even though this would be caught by the Recover Utility, why build JCL that contains TS/Partitions which would not be recover. This causes...
2 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Capture DB segment replace calls which actual data is not updated.

Our client (Fukuoka Financial Group) is currently using Dprop(IMS DataPropagater for z/OS) for creating Data Warehouse. Dprop captures replace calls and writes to PRDS(Propagation Request Data Set) even when DB segment was not actually updated. Cl...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Expand/Collapse Symmetrical and Asymmetrical in Universal Reports

Similar to the settings in PAW, it should be possible in PAfE / PASSL to expand or close C-elements asymmetrically in Universal Reports. In financial reports, several dimensions are usually nested in columns. E.g. Act vs. budget, years, months, wh...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

use a datamodule in Event Studio

IBM Cognos Event Studio works with source items that were defined in an IBM Cognos Framework Manager model and published as a package. We need that IBM Cognos Event Studio works also with Data Modules.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 8 Not under consideration
134 VOTE

export data from tables out of a backup image

Introduce a new parameter to the export utility to be able to export data from a table that is in a backup image.This functionality is especially useful for data extraction without touching/impacting the source system
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Future consideration

Add support for CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW syntax

I've seen that Db2 LUW and other types of databases support the syntax to do CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW. This can be useful as you don't have to have a separate statement to drop a view before rerunning a create statement. I had a new DB2 DBA on our t...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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
141 VOTE

Same selected item data in value prompt is sent to the client browser over and over while using drill-through

Same selected item data in Value prompt is sent to client browser over and over while using drill through. When lots of items are selected in Value prompt, this issue causes huge amount of data receiving. Those same selected item data shouldn't be...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Feature enhancement to monitor object detection models.

Openscale allows us to monitor the quality of machine learning models for classification, regression, and time series.There is a valuable opportunity to extend its capabilities to include monitoring and explainability for object detection models. ...
10 months ago in Openscale 0 Not under consideration