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Support for Cognos Portlets

Cognos 11 no longer support Portlets that we were able to create in Cognos 10 Portal pages.Most commonly used are the Dashboard "multipage" portlet, the Cognos content "IBM Cognos Navigator" portlet and a variety of the "IBM Cognos Utility" portle...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automated Upload of PAW Users via CSV

At the moment Users and Roles need to be set by the Administrator or needs to be uploaded by an Administrator into the PAW System via the Administration Console. Currently Human Interaction is needed to do these Steps. In an Enterprise System with...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Db2 client authentication with certificates like SSH (public/private) keys

Provide the possibility to authenticate with public/private certificates for the current client user like SSH does
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 3 Not under consideration

issue DISPLAY BLOCKERS instead of DISPLAY CLAIMERS when DRAIN timeout

Currently when DRAIN fails during REORG, a DISPLAY CLAIMERS is issued. The draw back is there is no "age" information, so user does not know which thread is the blocker, because the claimer could also be waiter.
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Invalidate Cache for pipelines & jobs on CP4D (Reset Option on 11.7)

Currently on CP4D GUI there is no option to reset the cache, like RESET option on 11.7 director. It will be hard to clear the cache on failed pipelines.
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

job comparison between different environments (like in 11.7)

Currently in 11.7 - there is an option to compare the jobs between different environments. It helps to identify what actually changed comparing to the production copy and helps for UAT. The same options is missing in CP4D.
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Manta VDS Lineage Export to Alation

Manta currently supports VDS lineage export to Alation for Database resource type but any other hierarchy isn't working for us. We do not intend to have such restriction in place for VDS export of any resource type since it is limiting us from exp...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Needs more information

IIDR Management Console incompatible to DB2 LUW LOAD Utility.

Change Data Capture (CDC) Subscriptions mirroring from DB2 LUW (Linux) to Event Server (JMS) are constantly failing due to some LOADs performed on DB2 LUW side. We must manually recycle affected LOAD table whenever they fail to restart the subscri...
11 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Improve INDOUBT thread processing in two-phase commit scenario

Recently we had a pretty severe production outage on an 8-way data sharing group. After resolution of the root cause, WAS and Db2 z were quite slow in recovery. Following the crash, there were dozens of indoubt threads and lots of retained locks a...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Online BAR from pureScale to non-purescale

There are many cases that a database on the purescale cluster is needed to move on non-purescale instance. for example,backup, development or DR system . However, oracle does support this.
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / pureScale 0 Future consideration