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Enable "overwrite encoding as binary" for CLOB

We have several CLOB columns in DB2 that contain binary data. Due to 0x00 Byte values we can't transfer them into a TEXT column in postgreSQL (0X00 is not accepted in utf-8). The Option "overwrite encoding as binary" on the CLOB Column in "Db2 for...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Supporting Prestogres in Cognos Analytics dashboards

Presto offers extremely fast access to HIVE/Hadoop data sets. Remote access is offered via Postgres - either through ODBC or JDBC; an intermediate process on the server routes request from the client to presto using the Postgres driver (prestogres...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CATMAINT / ENFM REORG enhancement

CATMAINTs and ENFM REORGs causes major disruption if running alongside current workload. Continuous availabilty requirements means sign-off for planned DB2 outages (version upgrades or catalog reorgs) are very difficult to obtain/justify.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Report Expression function "status" should catch out of scope data items

When building dynamic reports, it is sometimes necessary to build expressions that you know will fail in certain scenarios. In these cases having an error catching mechanism, like status, is incredibly useful. In this case I would like to be able ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Inverted Axis

When doing visualizations for management, typically expenses are a common topic of comparison, but with most bar/line visualizations having negatives farther away from the axis titles, it ends up looking wrong or not appealing. Allowing for the ax...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add quick help to RTM graphs when hovering the mouse on top of the graph

Show short help for each RTM graph while user hovers the mouse on top of the graph. Short help should have information of purpose of the graph and units of X and Y axels.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

LSF doesn't allow multiple LOAN policies on the same hosts

LSF has limitation in SLA LOAN_POLICIES configuration by having only one loan duration time available. It would be great, if SLA LOAN_POLICIES can support option to LOAN for different time to different queues. For example:LOAN_POLICIES = QUEUES[ge...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Support for DB2 v12 for z/OS

Need for a customer to use SPSS Modeler with data stored in DB2 version 12 on Z/OS. Some test that have been conducted by the customer show that using the provided odbc driver (which supports up to v11.1) seems to work perfectly. However, official...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Enable TLS 1.2 and automatically disable TLS 1.0/1.1 due to security vulnerability

Information Security vulnerability scan of SPSS Modeler servers show TLS 1.0/1.1 are currently enabled and need disabled ASAP by enabling TLS 1.2 or higher. This is an urgent request where security vulnerabilities require remediation with highest ...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

A Sort-Merge Join should be considered when joining on a SUBSTR expression

When tuning the following query, I saw that changing the "INNER JOIN" to a "FULL JOIN" caused it to perform many times better (which changed the join from a NLJ to a SMJ): SELECT ARCHIVE_STRT.LOCAL_TS AS LOCAL_TS_STRT, TIMESTAMPDIFF(2, CAST(ARCHIV...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration