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ODBC link to progress

Our finance system uses a progress database. I have been told that this cannot be linked to TM1/PAW. This means we have to use spreadsheets to get data from the finance system into PAW.
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Japanese Address standardization (UCSFREQADDR) stops dividing the Japanese Kanji characters

To compare the address data written in Japanese with the AXP, we should select the UCSFREQADDR for the Address standardization function. When we derive the data including the Japanese addresses, the Kanji characters in the prov and the city weren'...
about 5 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

External Link Management within the Watson Assistant console

Virtual assistants will often provide links to external websites as part of its dialog. There's currently no easy way to manage these external links within the console. It would be nice to easily configure an external link so that it displays to a...
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Reorg: Improve Lock Contention

Enhance Reorg:--> Reorg ... allow read access with range partitioned tables--> Options to avoid lock timeouts ---> specify max time for swap phase, restart delay for non-succeeding swap phase, deadline for reorg completion ---> allow i...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

The rewrite from non-correlated sub-select to a correlated sub-select should happen in additional cases

This was submitted initially as a case with ID TS002883559. The following query is not rewritten by Db2 (from non-correlated to correlated): SELECT *FROMPDBR111.VLCR004_NODELS TLCRTABLE0X0_ LEFT OUTER JOIN(SELECT * FROM PDBR111.TLCR002 A WHERE A...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhancing names of docker images for different instances

Information from Case numbers: TS002979327 and TS002990656 We are testing datastage 11.7.1 (kubernetes version) In case# TS002979327, following was recommended: ----- 2) you needed to modify your /etc/hosts file on your client machine with:<...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support Automatically Convert Numeric SQL Type(to Decimal or etc) for File Connector Stage to Parquet Format

Problem : We need to migrate data from SQL Server to Parquet Format. One of the data type in the SQL Server is Numeric type. We will run the migration job process using RCP. Workaround : 1. We need to change data type to another type, but we ar...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Ability to append to a file when performing an export

When exporting data to files, every export should be in a different file. And it the business requirement is to have all data in the same file, then it is necessary to do that manually with something external to db2.
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Have License Scheduler Automatically Prune its Database

LSF License Scheduler can create a database directory that log's token usage by feature. Over years, this directory can become cluttered, and impact License Scheduler performance. There should be a setting in License Scheduler to prune that direct...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Not under consideration

Improve RAS of License Scheduler

"Presently, License Scheduler, when placed in debug mode it becomes unstable, and will not respond to client requests due to all the blocking loops inside of the tool, including logging. It also lacks TRACE levels that improve the tuning of debug ...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration