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Watson Translate Support for Rich Text Fields

Currently Watson does not support rich text fields. This is a substantial amount of text fields and would include most data stream integrations provided OOTB for OP. Not being able to auto-translate is extremely confusing for the users and is inco...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Future consideration

Enable DATABASE_MEMORY change on WRITE SUSPEND database

We are using db2relocatedb to deploy test, dev, preprod environments from production images (disc snapshots). This happens multiple times a week (talking about multiple hundred databases). Most databases have DATABASE_MEMORY set to AUTOMATIC. Relo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration

Change stored procedure SYSPROC.NNSTAT to use method 2 for ODBC based nicknames

The SYSPROC.NNSTAT stored procedure uses method 1 for automatic, asynchronous statistics collection for ODBC based nicknames.This results in lack of statistics being collected, leading the optimizer to derive at inefficient access plans.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Future consideration

Replication Toolset

Enhancement request for the Infosphere Data Replication Management Console. 1.) Console to capture waits on DML leading to latency 2.) Preserve subscription/table performance monitors via save to quickly setup after a shutdown/startup. 3.) Save hi...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Applications and Plans - Scheduling Tasks

Reoccurring schedules for tasks Carhartt Business users will use Applications and Plans on a monthly cycle. Currently updating due dates in a task is very manual. Each task in the plan has to be opened individually to assign the start and end date...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

DB(...) and [...] reference builder to be added to PAW

In architect/perspectives when you write rules, you have the ability to click the DB(...) or [...] to build references to other cubes or areas within the current cube. In PAW, there does not seem to be a function to assist in building references b...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Understanding usage of catalog assets by business users interacting with the catalog

It would be good to understand if our cataloged assets are actually being used by business users. Which Assets are being used more than others. This would allow us to plan for future resource allocation and what we need to keep in our catalog vs w...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

new DDCARD SYSERROR

The output under sysprint can contain several thousand lines, especially when working with large listdefs. Then it is often very difficult to identify all the messages that lead to an RC8 or RC4. This is particularly true if there are several corr...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Support reading a CLOB field at least from DB2

Currently we have to cast a CLOB field as VARCHAR in order to read it into modeler from a DB2 source, and then we only get the first N characters. Please support reading entire CLOB as a string of size at least 256K characters or preferably more o...
4 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Re-usable Supernodes -- multiple instances of same one can occur in stream but modifying it immediately modifies all instances. Like a callable Function/Subroutine/Macro in programming languages.

Often we want to perform the same set of operations ("sub-flow") in multiple places in the stream, e.g. for similar/parallel data either from different data sources, or destined for different output or export nodes. It is essential that the *same*...
4 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration