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I would like to force the use of the "DEFER" option on the creation of an index (using Zparm to make it optional).

We have DBAs that at times (accidently) run a "CREATE INDEX" and fail to include the "DEFER" option. This is rather easy to do because the reverse engineering tools fail to create syntax with the "DEFER" option. The creation of indexes can be very...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Request ability to add Classification banner

Many Federal customers require the ability follow Federal Classification guidance in support of Classified deployments. In closed/classified environments, web services are required to denote the highest possible classification on an appropriately-...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Needs more information

Support for SAP HANA in Db2 Replication Service

A large Federal customer has a requirement to replicate, in near real-time, SAP HANA to Db2/Db2Wh. Our documentation page for the Data Replication Service shows that CP4D can support Db2 Warehouse as a target, but that SAP HANA is currently not su...
7 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Consumer being truncated when using egosh CLI

Egosh is quicker than the REST API to match consumers back to the spark instance groups. However, the consumer is truncated if the value is greater than 40 characters, which is not useful. This occurs on the following commands: egosh user roles4us...
7 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

SQL Data Insights - no option to weight attributes for AI_COMMONALITY

For outlier detection weighting single attributes (columns) is key, since attributes in a given dataset negatively affect the outcome of AI_COMMONALITY as tests shown
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Idenitfy code with duplicate functionality

A few customers I have talked to have asked how WCA4Z can identify duplicate code for them as part of the understand and refactor phases. Customers tend to have duplicate code across their applications that can be consolidated into reusable servic...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

Please add Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer without Adobe Flash

Currently the Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer requires Adobe Flash. The new Data Flow Designer by no means matches the capabilities and richness of DataStage Designer. Please provide the capability of editing the Assembly ...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 5 Not under consideration

provide Index status between CCR database and FAP to enable customer to decide if we need to reset the data publish

Currently there are many instances where the data is not fully published, especially when the new structures are published in controller, this leads to data consistency problem in report. So the users does not know when to reset the trickle publis...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

have NVL() and COALESCE() accept host variables like other DB engines do

See https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://community.ibm.com/community/user/datamanagement/discussion/sql-coalesce-does-not-support-sql-parameters*bm723bd631-c8e5-4c0c-a6ce-a5b977b8d2ae__;Iw!!I_DbfM1H!BBGO-0ceowioxh82YN-AlSZ0PMERaPp_Tm4yoQ_jh6qJaw9xW...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Missing Business Glossary Anywhere (BGA) Desktop App on Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D)

Business Glossary Anywhere App is currently not available on Cloud Pak for Data. Business Glossary Anywhere is a light weight Desktop Application that gives lot of ease for the users to navigate and use the Glossary information which is available ...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration