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Set explain on to show time spent on query optimixation.

Set explain on to show time spent on query optimixation. Then we can see which sql could benefit from optimizer hints to reduce cpu usage and improve performance.
about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add the option for a columns with changed values column to the Change Capture stage

Currently the Change Capture stage will give you the information (in the Column change_code) if your After Data is a Copy (0), Insert (1), Delete (2) or Edit (3), it would be good to have the option to generate an addition column change_columns (V...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Improve the functionality of the Join stage

Currently when doing a join in DataStage and tyring to achieve the same as e.g. a between in a SQL join, you either have to use the Lookup stage (which has other limitations, is not well documented (according to documentation, the Lookup stage doe...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Allow for additional (administrator defined) locations for deployment archives to be placed, other than the single location defined in Cognos Configuration

Being able to direct backups to additional locations allows for greater data protection and security of those backups. For example, being able to direct specific backups to a mapped offsite storage location, NAS, or other high availability storage...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow a dynamic filename element (ie. Date-stamp) for deployment exports so that a history of deployments can be maintained.

This will benefit environments where automated backups are defined, but it is not desireable for the existing backup to be overwritten. For example, being able to access 4 weeks history of weekly backups, without having to script a rename/copy ope...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Support daylight savings for scheduled jobs

In current state operations team need to go admin console to adjust the jobs to reflect the daylight savings. We have an operational impact if the job missed certain deadline due to manual intervention.
5 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Restore of chunks of one dbspace in parallel

In a case of an onbar restore and depending on the onconfig configuration of BAR_MAX_RESTORE setting a parallel restore of dbspaces is possible. In the case that one of the dbspaces have lots of chunks, all of these chunks will be restored sequent...
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Support for SAP HANA in Db2 Replication Service

A large Federal customer has a requirement to replicate, in near real-time, SAP HANA to Db2/Db2Wh. Our documentation page for the Data Replication Service shows that CP4D can support Db2 Warehouse as a target, but that SAP HANA is currently not su...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted

Consumer being truncated when using egosh CLI

Egosh is quicker than the REST API to match consumers back to the spark instance groups. However, the consumer is truncated if the value is greater than 40 characters, which is not useful. This occurs on the following commands: egosh user roles4us...
3 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Case Prioritization

Need the ability to automatically prioritize cases acrossdifferent queues based on the nature of the cases and business rules (e.g. High value transactions).
about 2 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted