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Access LOB data when using the WQLS list for IFCID 0306

The WQLS list allows the IFI READS 306 interface to limit the log records returned into the I306 buffer to just the DB and PS table ID combinations found in the WQLS list. Unfortunately, if you have tables that contain LOB columns you cannot retur...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Using 64-bit common storage with IFI READS 306 (IFCID 0306)

When reading log records using IFI READS 306 we now have the capability of specifying a 64-bit pointer to common storage. The dsnwlir function call requires five parameters. The second parameter is an IFCA pointer and we must set the IFCAFLGS valu...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to collapse by default the "Show properties" option while creating a new report

We are upgrading our environments to Cognos version 11.1.7 and we would like to control the "Show properties" option while creating a new report. In our current Cognos version (11.0.13.1), the "Show properties" pane is collapsed by default, so use...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Schedule Report with External Data Source

We have external spreadsheets from systems that do not integrate. However, we need to compile the data from the spreadsheet with system/package data. I understand that this is possible through external data sources. However, a report cannot be sch...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Q Apply issue a warning after exception due to OKSQLSTATES

Using OKSQLSTATES certain error conditions can be specified which will let Q Apply document a failing operation in IBMQREP_EXCEPTIONS.Today, Q Apply does not write out a warning into the log file if an exception based on OKSQLSTATES happened.Monit...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

Watson Speech to Text should return timestamps accurate to milliseconds for transcription

Real-life scenario: Researchers from Brandeis University, Boston University, Harvard, Boston College, and Northeastern University are investigating cognitive aging and biomarkers of dementia. Currently, they have been hand-scoring cognitive interv...
over 2 years ago in Speech Services 2 Not under consideration

Group level access to tickets

We are unable to grant access to all cases for a single system to all a team responsible for a product. You can either see your own tickets or all tickets for the ICN (which includes multiple products). We need a way to group people together so th...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Kafka replication: Add a system parameter to set the number of Kafka producer threads

Currently CDC is relying on the number of source tables in the subscription to determine the number of Kafka producer threads. As an alternative, a Kafka data store parameter could be use to set the number of Kafka producer threads the same way it...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Better preserve formatting information in Endpoint Language Translator

We are building a chatbot with Watson Assistant and would like to integrate the translation service. Technically it works, but we loose many formatting informations while translating (DE to EN or DE to FR). We tried the endpoint document translati...
almost 5 years ago in Language Translator (Archived Jan 24 2024) 0 Not under consideration

Avoid CHECK PENDING when adding column with constraint

The ability to add a column to a table and at the same time specifying a check constraint, without having to run check data.The constraint should be "simple", i.e. only referencing the new column.The default value should off course satisfy the con...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration