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Sort and filter options in the business term related terms list

Related terms in relationship section and other related business term appear not alphabetically sorted and there is no option to sort on the flight. It will be easier to review at least if the were sorted by name.
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Support for mass application and management of data rules

We would like better facilities for managing large numbers of data rules. Think hundreds to thousands.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

System admins and data stewards require job manager / scheduler tools and access

Data Stewards need a global view of scheduled jobs (i.e. what jobs have been scheduled for when) for specific projects. Data Stewards need the ability to manage jobs that have been scheduled as a group as opposed to one by one, for example stoppin...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

REORG SORTDATA NO should unload to shadow datasets and not unload to SYSREC

Changing DSSIZE for large table using SORTDATA NO, unloads to SYSREC. Since the volume of data is so large, SYSREC needs to go to tape. This causes the reorg to have greater elapsed time. Unloading to the shadows would greatly reduce the elapsed t...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Control Flow Guard (CFG) not enabled

BM Infosphere Data Replication Management Console, does not have Control Flow Guard (CFG) enabled. Control Flow Guard is a security feature which helps protect applications against memory corruption vulnerabilities by restricting where an applicat...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Replacement of Rest API calls for XMETA information with database connectors for much much faster retrieval

Hello, My team is trying to run a job in Data Stage on ING Datalakes and it takes around 10+ hours to complete. Performance issue is generated by Rest API calls while retrieving data from XMETA, daily run being questionable due to this approach....
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Exporting Data tables to excel or pdf

Hello, It would be very helpful for clients if they can export Data tables into excel or pdf documents. Currently you get an error message in the PDF or excel document.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Support for Microsoft Office 2019

Our customers want to use Cognos Analytics together with Microsoft Office to use analytic insights within office products like Excel, Word and Powerpoint. Currently (as of 22th of Oct 2019) latest version of Office 2019 is officially not supported.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Support multilingual data labels for non-directly referenced query items in DQM

When you have a multilingual Framework Manager package and re-use query items (for example with a join or query reference) in your report. The data item labels of this report will be, in contrast to CQM, not in the content-locale language (defined...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to externalize Statistics to RTS after Runstats

In seldom cases (~1%) Online Reorgs abend because the TOTALROWS column in the SYSTABLESPACESTATS are wrong. Then we do Runstats and update the RTS. The question is, why the number of rows is not externalized after doing a RUNSTATS. The value after...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Future consideration