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TM1 API / Excel VBA - Refresh Sheet => Refresh Selected Sheet without sheet activate

In the TM1 PAX API it is currently only possible to update the current sheet. The sheet must therefore be activated before the refresh. It would be an advantage if you could specify the sheet and it would not have to be ‘activated’ beforehand. Rea...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Manta export to Alation OCF - Power BI

AbbVie is unable to export Power BI resources from Manta to an Alation OCF (Open Connector Framework) existing Power BI source. They are only able to get a successful Power BI to Alation OCF when the Power BI source on Alation side is brand new wi...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Ability to customize color of buttons in message box

Blue color often associated to "validate/ok" and black color to "reject/nok" whereas sometimes it is quicker to choose the black one (e.g. moving a workflow)
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Switch the "IBM Data Server Client" over to an MSI installer for Windows machines

Currently the installer uses an ancient InstallShield installer that is a nightmare to roll out. It would be nice if it could be transitioned over to an MSI installer because those are easier to uninstall and roll out.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Under review

Enable classic reorg with "allow write access"

Many customers want to REORG their tables quickly and efficiently. The classic REORG is by far the fastest option but puts the table in read only mode. Inplace reorg allows write access but is much slower and not suitable for tables that have a hi...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 3 Future consideration

bhist json format output, similar to bjobs -json

Programatically parsing bhist output takes effort and susceptible to occasional changes across versions. json format output similar to bjobs -json would ease the handling of bhist output through scripts.
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Store User Settings on Backend

When a user needs to clear browser cache and cookies they need to reconfigure their user settings in Platform (Control Hub). Please consider storing these settings on the backend so that users do not need to do this. The need to reconfigure negati...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 1 Needs more information

Workbench also saving the database tree status

Currently the workbench preserves the status of the open tabs but the database tree visibility is managed elsewhere. The idea is that each workbench will keep its own tree visibility status. It would allow for a better separation of work between P...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow reset of all High Water Mark Statistics values

Currently some statistics HWM values are not reset while Db2 is active - e.g. Q3STCTHW. Consequently a transient event can hide a long term situation. This idea would allow those statistics to be re-set to zero - allowing performance management to...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

JDBC connection property currentSchema should be externalised in an IFCID

We have jdbc applications which have set the jdbc property currentSchema to determine the collection of db2 objects like tables, views etc. When we want to trace the application with a performance trace, we're not able to analyse the correct colle...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration