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Expand RETPD in template to 5 digits

RETPD parm in the template should allow 5 digits with a value up to 93000
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

support SAML for web crawler

The option to generate documents for question answering by web crawling does not work for us as we recently disabled basic auth and now require SAML. Would be great if the web crawler feature supported SAML.
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

IDAA should identify and format the rest of a volume after using TDMF to migrate from a smaller capacity dasd device to a larger capacity device

We recently migrated via TDMF from mod 54 to EAV devices (4 times larger) TDMF will copy the data to a space the size of the mod 54 (1/4 of the EAV). IDAA will only recognize and use the that space wasting 3/4 of the device. We would like IDAA to ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide a simple method to remove dasd volumes

Provide a simple method to remove dasd volumes. As an example: we migrated our dasd from Mod 54’s to EAVs. The mod 54’s were being removed from the data center. In order to do this we had IBM remove the appliance data pools, upload a new JSON file...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Increase Simple String text fields max character limit beyond 4000

Currently, text area fields have a character limit of only 4,000 which is insufficient for many use cases. Users are restricted to only have 4000 characters and have raise their concerns that this is not enough. We need an ability to allow adminis...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Future consideration

Timestamp/Time values in CDC (Source: DB2 / Target Kafka)

In our shop we've got a history-concept for our db2-data, using valid-from and valid-until timestamps. a lot of this timestamps contains time-values 24:00, for ex. '9999-12-31-24.00.00.000000 (or also other timestamp with time 24:00, eg 'jjjj-mm-d...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Record all failures into RUNREPORTS including when password expires

Currently - the report failure will only get logged into the RUNREPORTS table if the report server had received the request. If there was a failure beforehand, for example if the password had expired, you will not see the failure in the RUNREPORTS...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of security managament in Datastage

Currently, Datastage is offering different roles: DataStage Operator, DataStage Super Operator, ...(full list available here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSZJPZ_11.5.0/com.ibm.swg.im.iis.found.admin.common.doc/topics/c_wdisad_WebSp...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Select multiple KCOP user exits per subscription. CDC for Kafka

Currently, CDC for Kafka allow only 1 KCOP user exit to be select per 1 subscription. Customer would like to select multiple KCOP on the same subscription such as; Arvo live audit exit with Source and Target topic mapping exit.
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Report "Pending status" duration of batch/interactive reports in Audit

As per number of (batch/report service) processes and affinity connections set in dispatcher tuning properties, number of parallel reports will be limited. When all configured processes and connections are in use, any new report gets submitted wil...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration