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Avoid Reorg Abends by improving estimation of average row length

Today, for estimating the average row length being passed to sort, REORG gets that from catalog statistics with either AVGROWLEN or COMPRESSRATIO. The reason RTS stats is not used, is because RTS only contains the compressed data size.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support legacy application types in PAx

Application folders are not only used for Excel sheets which is the only supported file type in PAx as of v32. Applications are used to:- Consolidate TI processes (for admin and business users)- Link to views in control cubes for metadata review, ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW Lifecycle Snapshot allow for incremental migration of worksheets with Action Buttons

Scenario: Client has many PAW workbooks each with Action buttons which navigate to other workbooks. Problem: If client wants to change only one workbook, they are unable to migrate only this workbook as the navigation links which reference this up...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

I would like to force the use of the "DEFER" option on the creation of an index (using Zparm to make it optional).

We have DBAs that at times (accidently) run a "CREATE INDEX" and fail to include the "DEFER" option. This is rather easy to do because the reverse engineering tools fail to create syntax with the "DEFER" option. The creation of indexes can be very...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Request to leverage the connection to Denodo to automatically populate custom attributes for Information Governance Mapping in IBM Knowledge Catalog.

Current Challenges:We currently manage around 10-15 custom attributes manually in IBM Information Governance Catalog (IGC). However, the data for these attributes resides in Denodo, leading to inefficiencies and the potential for errors during man...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Request for the ability to create custom event-based workflows, specifically triggered by a date field, within IBM Knowledge Catalog.

Current Challenges: The default workflow templates lack the flexibility to include nested conditions, making it challenging to automate complex processes effectively. Enhancement Request: We propose the addition of event-based workflow creation th...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information

Please Log the Pre and Post Exec Runtimes in MBD and through Events

The Pre-exec start event is logged, but there is no event for the post exec. So, it's almost impossible for us to track the runtimes of post exec without adding additional layers to our external reporting. We would prefer these metrics to be track...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add Spark3.5.1 with Java 11 support enabled

There are a lot of improvements noted in Spark version 3.5.1 when compared to 3.3.1. Immediate driver for this version of Spark is the support for a defensive mechanism against SQL injections. There are other beneficial features: Spark connect, En...
3 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Submitted

Interoperability of Cognos Controller excel files with other excel documents and speed

Two issues that reporting entities have faced while working on Cognos excel file: a) Slower speed and system crashing while entities reports their financial information during the peak time. b) Unable to save Cognos forms when multiple non-Cognos ...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Is a defect

TM1 and Cognos Controller Interoperability

TM1 crashes or takes reasonably long time to process reports if run from ‘Perspective’ in Excel, while running along with Cognos Controller. TM1 and Cognos controller should be compatible and should not crash if both application running in the par...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

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