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fix the Cognos license counts for users who don't login

After Capabilities updated, admin licenses are incorrectly showing counts for users who don't login. Analytics Administrator license count should match the number of System Administrators.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month 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...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Multiple IMS connection support by DVM

Currently, one DVM server can connect to single IMSsubsystem only. Therefore, when multiple IMS subsystems exist in 1 LPAR, we must configure multiple DVM servers for each IMS subsystem to access data in all IMS subsystems.If DVM can support conne...
3 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Under review

Multiple TCPIP stack support by DVM

Currently, one DVM server can support single TCPIP stackonly. Therefore, when multiple TCPIP stacks exist in 1 LPAR, we must configure multiple DVM servers for each TCPIP stack to use all network connections.If DVM can support multiple TCPIP stack...
3 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Automatic migration of EXPLAIN tables in db2 LUW

Dear Team, We have seen whenever we migrate to higher version of db2 luw, the explain tables are not automatically migrated. We need to manually drop and recreate the explain tables to avoid errors like SQL0206N, SQL0220N, SQL1184N. As db2 modific...
7 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Timeout Setting in Planning Analytics as a Service

Currently not an option to adjust PAW/PAfE timeout settings in Planning Analytics as a Service like there is for IBM cloud models. In IBM cloud models, you can easily adjust this setting in PAW Admin. These are the defaults: https://www.ibm.com/su...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Expand/Collapse Symmetrical and Asymmetrical in Universal Reports

Similar to the settings in PAW, it should be possible in PAfE / PASSL to expand or close C-elements asymmetrically in Universal Reports. In financial reports, several dimensions are usually nested in columns. E.g. Act vs. budget, years, months, wh...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release