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Include notifications for recent changes (API Connect v10)

This is for API-Connect v10 (OVA install). In v5, there was a feature where one could view a notification bell in the top right corner when logging into the cloud manager or api manager that would show recent changes (Ex: xyz api was published, et...
over 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 1 Future consideration

Replace unique NPI by PI

We need to replace non-partitioned unique indexes by partitioned indexes. This will be even more important when we start converting PBGs to PBRs in vNext. Already today you can create a new unique index. The problem is getting rid of the old NPI. ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Supporting Oracle XA Transactions without DTP

As per IDR 11.4, Oracle XA transactions are only supported if DTP is activated in the oracle Database.In our Oracle Exadata environment, XA transactions are mandatory, but we cannot allow DTP being activated, because it has important consequences ...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Support required for Renaming Objects

As part of our developer self service for schema change approach, and new table a developer creates is added to a 'new objects' Db2 database - in an implicit tablespace. The DBA will subsequently come along and move the table to an explicit tables...
over 1 year ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SELinux policies for Informix on RHEL version 7 and upwards

At startup the Informix database spawns a number of processes, that run as unconfined SeLinux processes. From the permission perspective, some of these processes run as informix user (example: cpu and encrypt vps) whilst others run as root user (l...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

When AHA-RFE is implemented -> the APAR and/or KC -> include reference to AHA-RFE nbr

When an AHA -RFE is implemented and the knowledge center (KC) is updated AND/OR the APAR is updated/created then please consider putting a reference in the documentation pointing back to the AHA-RFE number! There may be pros and cons to including ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Reports can only be saved on same location

We noticed that saving a report (in the new interface) in the delivery options only applies to the report itself. It is not seemingly possible to save the report in a different path. If we use the classic overview and stop the delivery, we can sti...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improvements to UPDATE STATISTICS LOW

The run time of UPDATE STATISTICS LOW can be reduced by setting the parameter USTLOW_SAMPLE which also reduces I/O by using a sampling algorithm. However the table data may be deemed to be too heavily skewed and the engine falls back to a full sca...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Granular admin permissions

BMC Software has an agreement with IBM to host multiple Customers in BMC's Watson account. BMC invites a Customer's admin user(s) who have Admin permissions on the Resource group created for the Customer. A Customer can have a Watson Assistant / W...
almost 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Enrichment of tables production

CTABLES is getting old and has been overtaken by tools like Q Research or GESStabs. I think significant improvements and more features are overdue. We might even need a complete new module. Please see what other software producers developed and tr...
about 5 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration