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Direct folder creation feature

Direct folder creation feature should be added back
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Not under consideration

Allow the setting of a global option make LOAD jobs fail if a PRESORT cannot be performed

UET will be withdrawn from support next year and its use needs to be removed. To do this the newly provided support for the PRESORT keyword in the LOAD utility needs to be the same and consistent as the functionality that UET provided for PRESORT....
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add support for PDS input files to PRESORT in LOAD

The Utilities Enhancement Tool (UET) provides support for the PRESORT keyword for LOAD. It will sort the input file and pass it to LOAD to perform the LOAD. It will accept the input file as being a PDS and perform a PRESORT. UET will be withdrawn ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Include SYSPACKSTMT.STMT_ID in GET DIAGNOSTICS data

The SQL Standard for GET DIAGNOSTICS includes details about the actual statement being diagnosed - COMMAND_ FUNCTION / _CODE and DYNAMIC_FUNCTION / _CODE. The Db2 implementation includes none of these. Making it, effectively, impossible to identif...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

CDC Db2 Should Issue More Warnings on Staging Store filling Up 80% 85% 90% 100%

Ref TS004371870 We have a warning message at CHC1532W at 90% and one CHC1524E at 100%. We would like one earlier for our planning and reaction purposes. Our issues have been with rogue transactions that are doing mass updating, deleting etc.
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Enable the encoding to handle text files in ShiftJIS code.

There're a lot of ShiftJIs text files stored on Windows File System which we're going to crawl, but currently there's no way to change the encoding setting in WD(on CP4D), so all of them are garbled ( by default they are read as UTF-8 text). Pleas...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

breadcrumb trail in Report Studio

Previous versions of the BI product allowed for bread crumb trails to be created within the report to showcase the drill path that you were currently on. The technote here: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21470373shows a way to ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

XML, XMLMODIFY, Rename a tag without loosing data

The possibility to rename a XML-Tag without loosing data in one single step with XMLMODIFY or with xmlquery as in LUW:Example 1:UPDATE EOBK.SMXML SET XMLDATEN = XMLMODIFY(' rename node /RECORD/FREMD_EROEFF_DAT' as "ABSCHLUSS_DATUM") WHERE SPARTE =...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow updating metadata without updating the document in "Update Document" Discovery API request

At this time, we need upload the same document due to update only metadata. I want to update metadata of a document without updating the document because it takes a long time to process the document uploaded.
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Allow editing X axis of violin chart

If I am making a violin chart for a variable where the values follow a certain order, for example, days of the week, I don't have a way to put the chronological order on the X axis.The same thing happens if the values of my variables are ranges, f...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration