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Adding Debug capabilities to DataStage NextGen

Customers migrating from the legacy DataStage 11.x are missing the debug capabilities (setting breakpoints and running in debug mode) when moving to DataStage NextGen. DataStage developers are affected by the missing functionality.
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

PAX and Cognos Packages with Calculations

Planning Analytics for Excel does NOT support the use of Calculation Objects from a Cognos BI Package. Please have PAX support Calculation Objects .
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

File Attachment Versions history should only show versions with updated file attachments

When a user adds a file attachment, the File Attachment task view shows the Versions table. However, when the user updates only a field value such as "Abstract" or "Description", and clicks Save, a new entry in the Versions table appears, which ma...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

RLF DSNRLMTxx table field RLFIP allow subnet wildcard

we have a need to restrict threads with RLF by specifying userid and source IP with a subnet wild card. the source ips change with each "logon". In order to restrict all possible ips under a given subnet, we would need to enter 255 X 255 ips. allo...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Misleading Statement in Db2 documentation on CSBs of given Fixpack

The automated implementation of updates to the most recent CSB would be significantly easier, if one could rely on CSB number only. So, it would be helpful for customer's processing of CSBs and its implementation. In Description for CSBs, e.g., he...
7 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Submitted

remove limitations in workfile database which leedsto outages

When a workfile is created Db2 increments obid, when a workfile ist dropped the obid is not released by Db2. There is a restriction of maximum 500 workfiles. When the limit has been reached, no more work files can be created, SQL code -497 is retu...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Going back to workflow previous versions

While workflows show the version number, there is currently no way to go back to older versions.
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Have watsonx have support for translation

Have specialized models around language translation for a variety of languages.
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Cleanup of uploaded files older than threshold

Cognos 11 allows uploading of files to be analyzed in dashboards. As all users are able to upload such files, it would be useful to have a facility to remove files that are either older than a specific threshold or have not been accessed for a spe...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Rearchitect the colgroup processing to be more granular using multiple sorts as opposed to a single sort or more intelligently avoid the colgroup sort altogether (when possible)

Looking at the job output you sent in, we can see that there are 18 colgroups specified. Based on the current design, we have a single sort for colgroup(s). There are 184310123 rows unloaded The no. of the rows passed to the single dstats s...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration