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Enable the setting of stage parameter defaults on project or server level

It would be nice, if it would be possible to set the default values of stage Parameters on project or server level. Some stage parameter defaults like SORT Stage: Stable sort=TRUE or AGGREGATOR Stage:Method=Hash are rarely used and in most...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Dashboard Filterbar Enhancement

When I embed a dashboard onto an intranet site using an iframe there appears to be no way to have the filterbar collapsed by default. I can hide the navbar and appbar but not set the filterbar to be hidden or at least collapsed by default. Adding ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Rollback changes to both accelerators if failure occurs loading multiple accels in one load statement

We have a situation where it is important to keep the data in synch on both accelerators, so we use one statement to load both accelerators. Real case: The data is loaded from OPERLOG logstream to shadow table every 15 minutes on two IDAA accelera...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

DFD Hierachical Stage should be able to read data from the data stream

In DFD, no string set can be selected in the Hierachical Stage under Assembly Editor - 2. XML_Parser. Only a single XML file can be selected here. In DataStage Designer, however, this functionality of the Hierachical Stage is available with the As...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 1 Planned for future release

Switch from hierarchy view to memeber view in Dashboard

Switch e.g. on a cube the view from hierarchy to member view in dashboarding like in Report creation.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support mixed row/column environments without requiring CUR_COMMIT=ON

We have recently run into a problem when we enable Cur_commit because of the locking behavior expected by some applications (they expect blocking). Therefore, we have to disable CC, but then that app cannot use blu. We want to give our plant the a...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Planned for future release

Support Bulk Selection and Import/Export for Data Rule and Quality Rule

数据规则支持多选然后批量运行,质量规则支持批量的编辑、导入、导出。(Data rules support bulk selection and run, and quality rules support bulk editing, importing, and exporting.)
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

LOAD should not be restarted when Apply fails during SET INTEGRITY

When setting up Replication for a DB2 Table for the first time Apply will use a LOAD FROM Cursor to do an initial copy of the tables data. If there are constraints or generated columns defined for that table Apply will issue a SET INTEGRITY comman...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Allow users to change their language in profile

Our application is used by people from different countries. At the moment the only option of changing the language in CP4D is to change the default one in the browser. Having the option either on main page or profile would be a lot easier.
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Planned for future release

Make it more difficult to accidentally close windows in DataStage

When working in (for example) a Transformer, if you accidentally click outside of the pop-up window, the window will close like hitting the cancel button and all the work you'd done so far is gone. This can be extremely frustrating. On a similar n...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release