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Display Record Counts on Job Desing Links in Operations Console

When viewing the job Run history in the Operations Console, I would like to be able to select a previous run and then display the job design with the record counts shown on each of the links in the job. Ideally I would also like to be able to see ...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Improve the Aggregator Stage

The Aggregator Stage hasn't change for a long time and there are a lot of things that could be improved, currently a lot of things is done with sorting, keychange and transformer variables (or in a database connector) instead of using a Aggregator...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

TM1 - Users not able to query all the members in default view

TM1 - Users not able to query all the members in default view. If we choose All Roots then we will be able to do the search for all members. Default view not pulling any results if we search for leaf attribute. SEV 1 IBM Case was opened for this ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add options for "recommend indexes" and "evaluate indexes" explain types to explain_from_section

When running explains from jupyter notebook, I prefer to use EXPLAIN_FROM_SECTION. However for in-depth analysis of indexes, I need the RECOMMEND INDEXES and EVALUATE INDEXES explain modes. These don't seem to exist for EXPLAIN_FROM_SECTION. This ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Recently someone accidently freed all packages with FREE PACKAGE(*) which took a week to recover all packages.

It took the entire DB2 systems and application staff a week to discover and bind all missing packages. Many outages were incurred during this time.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

db2caem should support 'SET CURRENT QUERY OPTIMIZATION = N'

For diagnostic of Db2 performance problems the tool db2caem can be very helpful. Especially if a particular query plan should be compared using different optimization levels. Using db2caem the optimization level must be specified by embedded optim...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

DFD Icons

We need that read-only dfd (Datastage Flow Designer) users are not able to click the icons and links corresponding to the operations they cannot perform. For example, We would like that read-only user not to be able to click on the job creation link.
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

More granular authorization control over IDAA table resources

More granular authorization control over IDAA table resources. 1. The current IDAA Stored Procedure can add AT for any DB2 tables, only if user has been granted the EXECUTE privilege of SYSPROC.ACCESLL_ADD_TABLES and several related authorizations...
over 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Put fields/Date Items in folders and also mark as hidden in a data module

Some fields in datamodules will be things like surrogate keys, which I dont want users to see or use. Currently I dont see a way to hide them. Additionally when there are a number of fields in a table, it is more logical for users to see these in ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

QMF EE for websphere Edit menu to have copy, paste, replace feature

QMF EE for websphere when editing a query, edit menu is grayed out which lets copy, paste, find and replace text within a query. Currently, the workaround is use keyboard short cuts.
almost 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Not under consideration