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Enhance DSNU306I message

We are regularly getting DSNU306I, however the message does not provide any information about the claimers. It will be very productive if DSNU306I is enhanced to include the claimers. DSNU306I -DB2P 325 14:06:35.61 DSNUQUIA - UNABLE TO DRAIN WRI...
10 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add Data Set operations to audit logging

Add user actions surrounding data set creation/modification/refreshes to audit logs. When researching when a data set was refreshed, there seems to be nothing in the audit logs that stores that this action happened. Request data set refresh and an...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Rearchitect the colgroup processing to be more granular using multiple sorts as opposed to a single sort or more intelligently avoid the colgroup sort altogether (when possible)

Looking at the job output you sent in, we can see that there are 18 colgroups specified. Based on the current design, we have a single sort for colgroup(s). There are 184310123 rows unloaded The no. of the rows passed to the single dstats s...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improved message text for DSNU537I

DSNU537I displays a page set which is not allowed in the list. As the utility can not know what the user intends to do, the text should be changed to a more general text without naming a pageset. Why: 1) Assume userA runs COPY with 4 objects, one ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow modification of column-organized columns

Currently, in column-organized tables you cannot alter or rename columns and you even cannot drop columns. The only allowed operation is to add a column. This renders the column-based-tables pretty useless because in a normal environment, it must ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Enable/Disable job schedule with CPDCTL or API

Case: TS016318008 Our EPAM team is build the automation of stop/start inbound jobs' schedulers with CPDCTL. While we found even the job on UI shows no schedule, it still runs everyday with schedule. We tried to get the job information with API and...
3 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

It should first check if the schedule is not done and then trigger the job as per schedule to avoid one last trigger and job run timestamp modification.

The MDE job was scheduled to run every week on Sunday till 06/04 but the job definition modification time & modified by the user got changed automatically on 06/09. It should first check if the schedule is not done and then trigger the job as ...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Need clarity on multi-select column analysis availability in IBM Cloud Pak - Currently available in Information Analyzer

There is a function in IA where you can select specific columns to re-analyze. Client wants this functionality in IKC. Please see bullet 1 in the attachment for screenshots and description. (bullet 2 is a different Aha idea).
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Drill through filtering improvements between dashboards and reports

There is no option to have the filter on the report be dynamic enough to account for all the data filtering options that the dashboard could potentially send over via the drill. There should be better alignment if we are to use the drill from dash...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Allow calculated fields to be editable

Hi Team, We are moving triggers to calculations and we have triggers that set the fields and still allows the users to update it. WE need calculated fields to be editable to work on this migration. Raising this RFE to allow calculated fields to be...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 2 Future consideration