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about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

CDC Record type 99 generation to be controlled externally

To generate IMS records for CDC, each DBD must be augmented by adding an EXIT parameter to each segment. This would require a DBDGEN an OLC. We need a command (type1/2) to be able disable and enable type 99 record creation against a database that ...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

DSN1COMP - provide an option to write the output to a table

We have a lot of objects being uncompressed today and where we like to check, if compression would be usefull. Therefore DSN1COMP is a great tool, but it requires us, to check each output manually. That to much effort to do it for all uncompressed...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add Support for AWS Athena as Data Source for Watson Query

There is currently no support for connecting to AWS Athena, the generic connector does not work and no workaround has been found.
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Enhance db2move to use remote LOAD from CLIENT

For migration of on premise Db2 database to a cloud service, the usability of db2move would help a lot.For now you have to use manual LOAD commands to load data for each single table to the Db2 on cloud service.db2move can be used from the on prem...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Request to differentiate the import selection from Assets to Schemas | Tables.

Right now whenever we select the assets in the import section irrespective of the selection between schemas/tables it displays as assets.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Currently =X does not work from any panel, should add this to the product

Must press pf3 to get out of the product, then =X or =XALL
over 4 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Checkbox field type & assoc. formula in Salesforce need to be able to be visible in Cognos Analytics with a direct connection

We have made a direct connection from Cognos Analytics to Salesforce.com. We are able to see all Salesforce fields in Cognos with the exception of 2 crucial ones that make the connection useless without them. The one field is called NDA_C and is a...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Notification that test button in "Test Connection" has been clicked and is currently testing.

In IBM Cognos administration portal, under the configuration tab, data source connections, under a data source's connection properties, connection tab, test the connection link, it would be nice if the "Test" button was disabled after clicking it ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add a Feature to Replicate Microseconds Portion of Timestamp

We use IIDR CDC on z/OS for replication using DB2 data on z/OS as the source and a flat file on a non-z/OS platform as the target. We have encountered a situation where the microseconds portion of the timestamp value on a DB2 z/OS table is not ret...
almost 8 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration