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Ability for administrator to see users groups, roles and capabilities

As an administrator it would be very helpful and useful to be able to see the groups, roles and capabilities assigned to a specific user.It would help the administrator understand why a users is signed for a specific license.Eg.: Why is user AAA r...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

fix the Cognos license counts for users who don't login

After Capabilities updated, admin licenses are incorrectly showing counts for users who don't login. Analytics Administrator license count should match the number of System Administrators.
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Enhance OPTIM to default to "DOFILE_EXPANSION NO" on zOS.

Reduce SAVRS output by 90%. State Farm executes several thousand jobs a day when executing the scrubbing of our Enterprise Data Capture. If the underlying SAVRS datasets fill up, that causes problems, and they have to be prematurely migrated. Sinc...
14 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Write Current Compression Dictionary to Log

Write compression dictionary to the Log upon its creation. This would enable true independence of data capture from actual table space availability and/or status. By implication, this might eliminate the need to write the old dictionary to the log...
14 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Mapping Leaf Level Node to a Higher Level Node

We have a use case wherein we intend to link a Leaf Level Node in Manta to a Higher Level Node considering the functionality of process flow among the applications from different technologies. Manta may already have an understanding of IFPC hierar...
14 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

Use DB2 Storclas for extents during TS Cloning

I would like an option where the CloningTool uses the StorClas from the DB2 catalog for newly created datasets (e.g. extents).Currently only the following options are supported: no specification means the SMS StrorClass is adopted from the origina...
15 days ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Automation of code (UNIX scripts) deployment to storage volumes for CPD DataStage service

This is for automation of code especially unix scripts used for ETL batch processing by DataStage service on CPD platform. DataStage service needs storage volumes for processing files which are accessible by both conductor & compute PODs on CP...
28 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

List down all the patches installed with date time from the time of installation of CPD

Reference IBM case:- TS017418161 We need help in listing out patches for CP4D, we don’t have direct option like On-prem DS11.7 where version.xml would lists all patches with installation date. We would like to know detailed steps on how to retriev...
28 days ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

View file attachments in OP UI without downloading. Also view file attachments in Cognos reports

We would benefit greatly from a built-in file/attachment viewer capability. Something that allows users to view file attachments within the OP UI without having to download them to their workstation. File attachments uploaded in OP are only viewab...
28 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Request is for ELIMS to be imported into LSF Simulator

Currently LSF Simulator only permits LIMS resources, not ELIMS. All LSF clusters use both LIMS and ELIMS therefore there why would Simulator only support LIMS resources and not ELIMS
29 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Simulation & Prediction 1 Not under consideration