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Plot Mapbox maps using Eastings/Northings

We would like to be able to use Eastings and Northings to plot points on Mapbox maps.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 2 Future consideration

Add APPLCOMPAT BIND Option to QMF For Workstation Bind Packages Panel

Currently there is no option to set APPLCOMPAT for the binding of the QMF For Workstation Packages so the packages are bound to whatever the DB2 Subsystem DEFAULT is. Alternatively, you should be able to specify the highest APPLCOMPAT value that t...
7 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Future consideration

remove limitations in workfile database which leedsto outages

When a workfile is created Db2 increments obid, when a workfile ist dropped the obid is not released by Db2. There is a restriction of maximum 500 workfiles. When the limit has been reached, no more work files can be created, SQL code -497 is retu...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Please Log the Pre and Post Exec Runtimes in MBD and through Events

The Pre-exec start event is logged, but there is no event for the post exec. So, it's almost impossible for us to track the runtimes of post exec without adding additional layers to our external reporting. We would prefer these metrics to be track...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Extend Schema Registry support to non-Kafka sources

CP4D support for the use of a Schema Registry is currently limited to Kafka data sources (ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x?topic=catalogs-apache-kafka-connection). However, Schema Registries represent a valuable method ens...
10 months ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

Ability to execute Pacemaker status and version commands as a non-root user

In TSA the following commands can be executed as a non-root user to check the status and get the version: lsrpdomain lsrpnode lssam samversion Pacemaker commands require root access to execute. A DB2 DBA may not have root access to execute Pacemak...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Future consideration

Create Audit data module together with Audit sample reports in the same way as exist for the Audit package.

In our self service environment we do not have framework manager installed. We need to connect some user access tables to the audit model. We could create an Audit data module our selves but then if IBM does any changes to the audit model () we ha...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Configurable resource requirement of PMML deployment

Since many customers may have a separate data science team for the model building work, while the deployment work will be done by the system/platform admin team. Therefore it would be better for the system admin team to control the resource requir...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Add Explain Support for Queries with DGTTs

When a query in a program uses a DGTT, there is no access path written to the PLAN_TABLE at bind time, and there is no way to see the potential access paths. There needs to be a way to see those access paths in Administration Foundation. Currently...
7 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Adding userid and timestamp info in Database exception table (DBET)

When an objects goes to a pending status or STOP status due to unplanned / unexpected activity, it is difficult to identify who /when the object went to that restrictive status.Already the DBET will be storing information when an object goes to ST...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration