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Redshift Copy from S3 Fails with 'AVRO string is broken' Error in 'Load' Write Mode"

When using the Redshift connector with 'Load' write mode, the copy operation from S3 to Redshift fails with an 'AVRO string is broken' error when there are no records. We need the process to complete successfully without writing any data.
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

RESTORE SYSTEM should support log apply across DSN1COPY and vendor utilities

RESTORE SYSTEM can fail in log apply when there was a DSN1COPY or vendor utility within the log apply range. This occurs because RESTORE SYSTEM uses pageset control log records to determine that a LOG NO utility had been run, and neither DSN1COPY ...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Mark in FTM Base the master message that is sent to MER for printing

The problem is when users have several messages to send from FTM Base to MER for print. In the meantime they receive another message and when they return to search again, they lose track of which message they were on and it can happen that the scr...
about 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Published report/dashboard, Secure underlying source

Users of dashboards/reports should not be able to open underlying sources like datamodule, dataset or file.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Define “composite views” from 2 different cubes in the same grid in PAW

We have a large planning cube that has 350+ users capturing planning data on a product level based on insights gained from both string and numeric measures. Based on IBM's best practice, string measures should be removed from the planning cube if ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enhancements to the Alert Banner

The Alerts Banner, started in version 11.1.4, is a very useful tool to communicate with users. Very handy for announcements like downtime, availability of reports or updates to the environment. Please add the following features: 1- Ability to add ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW - Allow option to set cube view as read only for all users

I kindly request you to enable a configuration option in PAW to set a view as read-only for all users. Below is my use case - As a developer, I often set up various views in a book for reporting purposes and prefer to prevent users from updating d...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under 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...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Low Volume Suppression

IBM WH is using Cognos Reports and Dashboards to report on healthcare data. Our customers have concerns about users being able to create reports and dashboards that can return field/cell values that could potentially identify an individual even if...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration