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Outbound Transmissions Page - Please add filter option for "Transmission Definition" column.

Currently in FTM 3.0.5.4 and 3.0.5.5, on the Outbound Transmission page, the Transmission Definition column is not filterable. Several of the other columns are. The Transmission Definition column should be added to the filter options.
4 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Submitted

Request is to make WLM Effective only on primary, on STANDBY it should not be in effect

Why is it useful? It helps us restrict the access to users who has readonly access on standbys to accidentlally connect to primary and run some rogue commands. who would benefit from it? We as DBAs, This gives us confidence on how we can use the r...
7 months ago in Db2 / Workload Management 2 Submitted

Add an option to adjust the value font size on a line and column chart

You can adjust the font size of values in the column chart, but not in a line and column chart. Be consistent.
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Set the Content Expiry header in spreadsheet services

Asking users to clear their browser cache when they change a websheet across a large company is difficult as not all users know how to do it. To facilitate that, we can set the content expiry header to 8 hours, which means the user browser will re...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Hide tabs according user authorisation

It would be helpful if we could hide certain tabs for certain users. As a use case, we have a dashboard that displays the financial specifics per department, management however needs an overall view of the company wide financials. The departments ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

"Ghost" record downstream mitigation via CP4D filter

In our downstream systems, any ghost record that is generated in CP4D (currently being tackled by IBM engineering) is also part of the payloads sent out via ds jobs. This is causing technical issues in connected systems that are flattening the pay...
about 2 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Separating configuration from MDM/MDMUI/BPM containers

While migrating from one DC to another DC with IP change and other configuration changes, we need to go for fresh installation which should not be the case in containerized environment.
about 2 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

High Availability feature using the InfoSphere CDC for z/OS failover for IMS

We are a 24x7 IMSPlex site including workload balancing across lpars. We have introduced CDC for IMS, replicating data from critical 24x7 business applications. Presently we do not take any outage for these business applications. When making c...
about 2 months ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow specification of VolumeType when provisioning a new EMR cluster through Transformer

When the Cluster Manager Type is set to EMR and Define Cluster Start Option is set to Provision New Cluster, there should be an option to set the VolumeType for EBS storage. Since this is possible when actually creating an EMR cluster and attachin...
about 2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Priorities are strictly respected with new scheduling feature R_StrictPriorityScheduling

Our client is requesting a feature enhancement on top of what we have in the product. The following is an explanation of the scheduling policy Here is the description of the feature we would like for Symphony. Symphony provides a few scheduling po...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted