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Add capability to capture Class 3 (Delay) - PQ SYNCHRONIZATION

Currently QM does not display any information on Class 3 PQ SYNCHRONIZATION. This is needed so the Delay section matches up to PM and DBAs can quicky see why there is such a long elapsed time. Currently there is no way. I am using PM more that QM ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow trusted context to accept CIDR notation

Currently the syntax to define a trusted context accepts only IP's . In view that microservices are deployed on Kubernetes infrastructures, the DBA has to add all the IP's of the different subnets. This is both cumbersome and laborious. The propos...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Workspace Visualization "Repeat (column)" and "Repeat (row)" title formatting

It's not possible in Workspace, when working with a Visualization that offers "Repeat (column)" and "Repeat (row)" to format the title of the various repeated visualizations. Please enable the same consistent set of tools available to format other...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Get sequence's NEXTCACHEREFRESHVALUE from cache.

Please see the attached word document and as our development teams are trying to retrieve the NEXTCACHEREFESHVALUE value after ALTER SEQUENCE ..RESTART and before invoking NEXT VALUE but could not able to find the way to get the value of NEXT CACH...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Enable maintenance mode with appropriate & consistent messages for users across UI

In PA, there needs to be a feature which stops users from accessing the platform. This can be useful during a security change, data validation, metadata update, save data, bulk upload and many other maintenance related jobs. A maintenance mode is ...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

LSF to control SSH sessions on hosts running LSF jobs

We have many users who need to open an SSH session from their IDE ( VSCode, PyCharm) to a cluster machine running their LSF job so they can debug/troubleshoot/test in realtime in an interactive session. While battach works to connect to a cluster ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 3 Future consideration

Make searchpath available to extensions

We have an extension to add entries to the context menu (...) of reports and reportviews. These new entries should only appear in specific folders. For example there are two folders: FOLDER1 and FOLDER2. The context menu of all reports/reportviews...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Enabling readonly mode for database or user. (DB2 LUW)

Would like to see a db level and a user level parameter to enable readonly mode at database level or user level. Currently need to run set of statements to achieve this, which makes management difficult. A single statement to enable readonly mode ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Logo images maintenance within the platform

Rather than have a customer in the IBM PA cloud, scramble round trying to find a robust location for a URL (with jpg extension) that we can use for company logo in reports (generally ends up as a workaround in Box with dummy accounts or something ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Data connections - GCP, Azure, AWS, Snowflake native connectivity

Lots of modern SAAS tools built from the ground up have direct connectors for popular data sources. Might be good to tick a few off that are common. Currently only ODBC and File Transfer (requires a SFTP orchestration tool) exist for PA cloud.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration