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Ability to activate/deactivate rules in UI & Temporarily revoke rules without deleting rule.

Ability to activate/deactivate rules in UI & Temporarily revoke rules without deleting rule.
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Multiple Pipeline and Job Selection for Engine Assignment

To assign or change SDC engine assignment for pipelines and jobs it is currently required that an admin go into each pipeline and job one-at-a-time, edit the object into draft mode, change the assigned engine, then check in the object. Please make...
2 months ago in StreamSets 1 Functionality already exists

AI that is familiar with writing TI, Rules, MDX

Developers might have questions on how to do write a TI to do something or a rule to get a desired result. It would be great if IBM has a trained AI (watson?) on all the TI, RULE functions etc... Microsoft has CoPilot, Google has Claude, OpenAI wi...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add zIIP normalization coefficient to accounting record.

CPU time may show up in reports as being greater than wall clock time if the thread ran mainly on a zIIP, due to normalization of CPU values. These values can only be "un-normalized" if the normalization factor at the time the accounting record wa...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Under review

Unable to Rename a Pipleline as same as Datastage Flow - SAVE AS option not available

While trying to take a backp/copy of a datastage flow/parallel job, we are able to change the name of the job without opening the actual job(Snapshot1). But when we try to do the same for Pipeline, the job name is suffixed with "_copy_1" by defaul...
2 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Allow up to 2000 characters in TMPDIR

Some workflows require longer paths for TMPDIR.
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 6 Functionality already exists

View run history details for Interactive running reports

We have the able to troubleshoot reports running in background because we can view run history details as the reports are running in background. However, if the reports are running interactively, we cannot view run history details. It would be hel...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Save report output (Excel/PDF) to a local network directory

Currently, when generating reports from Cognos on Cloud, there is no option to direct the report output to a local network file directory. AS-is, without this functionality end users would be unreasonably required to download thousands of pdf file...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow DBM CFG FEDERATED YES ONLINE configurable

Allow DBM CFG FEDERATED YES ONLINE configurable Db2 federation is activated by: UPDATE DATABASE MANAGER CONFIGURATION USING FEDERATED YES To use federation it is necessary to stop/start database manager. Please make it possible to activate federat...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

Primary Keys should allow NOT TRUSTED

Currently you can create NOT ENFORCED primary keys but the optimizer will then always treat these as trusted. This causes problems when the constraint is violated but a filter includes all PK columns since the engine will return only one row even ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 5 Not under consideration