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Conversion DECIMAL do CHAR

We are in the process of migrating data from Db2 z/OS to Db2 LUW. In our many programs we convert DECIMAL data into CHAR, e.g. to display it on the reports in a readable format. Unfortunatelly Db2 LUW formats data diffrently than Db2 z/OS. Let us ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Submitted

support to write object storage (S3 and azure) in open parquet format

OP Financial Group Data Platforms: We need CDC to write Parquet files directly (without additional/third party components) for replicating data to Cloud object storage (AWS S3 and Azure). The data will be used for analytics and data science tasks,...
9 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Planned for future release

Suppress Static Subset Copy Message in Planning Analytics Spreadsheet Service

Whenever Dynamic Subsets are used in SUBNM Formulas in the Planning Analytics Spreadsheet Services a message pops up "Static Copy required". This Message confuses Employees working with the system. The user enters the WebPage and Logs In. When usi...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Report search should only be returning items that the user has permissions to see

Search in portal enviroment does not take into account user's permissions and returns all reports matching in name.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Optimizer does not use HIGH2KEY/LOW2KEY for columns with COLCARD 1

Optimization issue if a business_time_oriented table has only one row. In syscat.columns the content of the business_time columns are detected (high2key, low2key) but the value can not be found in the distribution statistics. This leads default fi...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Integrate RACF into ADMIN tool

Would be nice to have for 'DB2 under RACF'-sites that we can see on a object which auth RACF Profile rule is used. And see who/groups are on this profile. And give an message if you dont have auth to see this (in RACF organised)
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

ALLOW (SOME) UTILITIES TO OPERATE ON TABLESPACE TABLE NAME

I would like it to be easier for developers or other end-users to more easily use some basic Db2 utilities. For example, RUNSTATS or RECOVER with redirected recover functionality. But any utility that only operates on tablespace today, consider al...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Do not start jobs with less than X cores per host

It is useful for when ptiles or slots do not fulfill your needs. Using an example, we have an MPI code that requests 100 cores. We don't tell LSF how to grab those cores, and sometimes it will go out and span across 12 nodes, taking 19 cores on on...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Under review

Enhance User variable stage in Datastage to map an Integer variable to String UV variable

Legacy Datastage allows a parallel job level Integer variable to map to a string UV variable, but the same is not available in Cloud Pak. Need the enhancement to enable smooth code migration and execution from Legacy to Cloud Pak
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Request for the addition of a generic JDBC driver connector to enable users to connect any database in Cognos Analytics.

We would like to propose the addition of a generic JDBC driver connector in Cognos Analytics. This feature would allow users to connect to any database that supports JDBC, providing the flexibility to use a wide range of database systems with Cogn...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted