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Provide possibility to alter a COLUMN from NOT NULL to NULL and vice versa

A table was defined with COLUMN A NOT NULL but it is not posssible to remove the NOT NULL clause afterwards!
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

When ProportionSpreadToZeroCells=F allow paste of multiple cells to put zero on a zero consolidation with no error

We have had issues with users entering data on zero rollups and the data being evenly spread to every child, even in intersections that do not make sense. So we were excited when we found out about "ProportionSpreadToZeroCells". It fixed the issue...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics - PAX exploration footnotes

We want to have an established footnote-like disclaimer on an exploration that is generated via PAX by any user. Could you please let us know if there is a way to have this footnote-like disclaimer automatically generated for each user when openin...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Messages not getting added to Kafka EntityId topic through custom services(for custom objects)

To enhance the messaging capability, we tried enabling the kafka functionality of IBM MDM. Steps mentioned in the IBM knowledge center - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSWSR9_11.6.0/com.ibm.swg.im.mdmhs.kafka.export.doc/topics/kafka_c...
over 3 years ago in Master Data Management 8 Not under consideration

Rule name instead of Rule Set Name in Rule Executable Name column

We would like to create process where business will have some reports based on IA output tables. We found that for RuleSet we have got RuleSet name instead of Rule Name in RuleSet Executable column.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

IBM SPSS Modeler should support the Microsoft Hive ODBC driver.

Currently no option exists to connect SPSS Modeler to Microsoft's HDInsight hadoop as a service. Adding support for Microsoft Hive ODBC driver would provide support for this data source.
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Not under consideration

Custom script in order to query content store to find any reports scheduled using the burst mode

we want to fetch the report which are scheduled using the burst mode from the current existing schedules.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Dashboard cluster utilization report

Need for a better, configurable dashboard, that communicates the (usable) slots and memory utilization of the grid, provides some context, shows where the actual work is happening, and can be used by developers, grid admins, and regular business u...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Change the 'date' column in the MER Facility Message List to "Value Date"

Change the 'date' column in the MER Facility Message List to "Value Date"; only the header line text to change from "Date" to "Value date". Reference: Case# TS004981314
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

New NOT NULL columns cannot be added to an empty table without a default value.

Submitted on behalf of Gregor Hack (ghack@zeb.de). New NOT NULL columns cannot be added to an empty table without a default value (WITH DEFAULT). Customer currently sets a dummy default value, which they drop afterwards.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration