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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...
3 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 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...
3 months ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Data module: Publish, change impact, and report dependencies

It would be nice to have the same funcionality for publish, change impact, and report dependencies like in Framework Manager
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data Modules - Support Stored procedures as for Framework Manager

Stored procedure calls as the Following : EXEC [dbo].[MY_STORED_PROCEDURE] Work partially in Chrome. Not labels for columns. And in IE11 it genrates errors. After creating an incident with IBM Support they tolds us that is not a case support but ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Warning when deleting any Dialog node that is used elsewhere (for Watson Assistant Dialog Skills)

Problem statement: In Watson Assistant Dialog Skills, you can currently delete a node that is used in the flow (i.e. if it is jumped to or if any of the children nodes are jumped to) without any warning. Real Life example of this issue: I recently...
almost 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Ability to "Run Once" list of schedules under IBM Cognos Administration -> Schedules and My Schedules and Subscriptions screens

Why is it useful? Currently, in-order to run any enabled schedule once, administrators need to go into each schedule "Run the schedule once..." option. It is very time consuming run each schedule manually if there's a need to run list of schedules...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Change behaviour of default Fast Communications Manager (FCM) port

Change behaviour of default Fast Communications Manager (FCM) port https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/db2-db2-server-tcpip-port-numbers For Db2 Version 11.5.5 or older, the ports used are 60000 and higher. For example, ports 60006 - 60011 would be ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Ability to check storage performance

After moving to the cloud, in particular, managed service a user loses the ability to verify storage performance. There should be a stored procedure that allows such a possibility. Basic metrics, like IOPS, bandwidth, etc. Such a service would bui...
10 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted