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DFD Icons

We need that read-only dfd (Datastage Flow Designer) users are not able to click the icons and links corresponding to the operations they cannot perform. For example, We would like that read-only user not to be able to click on the job creation link.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

}Externals Folder Maintenance

There are scenarios where old files stay behind in the}Externals folder. Either from file system issues or connection issues during a report update or deletion. Over time these files clutter the folder and make it hard for us to do analysis on the...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support query parameters in projection clause

See: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5000z00001MLNI2AAP/db2parameter-not-working-with-merge-statement This works with DB2 according to IBM support staff.
almost 5 years ago in Informix 0 Not under consideration

Deploy new/unused packages without causing performace impacts

With current DB2(V11.1 FP2, FP4), Deploying a new or an unused packages causing variation and catalog locks impacting performance. HOLDHDL WAITHDL HOLDER WAITER HOLDMODE OBJTYPE TABNAME SCHEMA SECS STMTTEXT ---------- ------- ---------- ------...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Proper Error notifications for CDC capture and apply SQLCODE

We recently had issue where CDC plan on Zos Capture was bound to a wrong collection and resulted in one capture referencing the metadata of another capture. Case TS008690724. when this happened a +100 sqlcode was shown in the capture log but there...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

QMF EE for websphere Edit menu to have copy, paste, replace feature

QMF EE for websphere when editing a query, edit menu is grayed out which lets copy, paste, find and replace text within a query. Currently, the workaround is use keyboard short cuts.
over 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

User Account details in Activity Log for Calculation Engine Functions

When a data field is updated via the calculation engine, a generic system account appears in the Activity log. It would be more useful for the user account of the user whose action triggers the calculation engine update to appear in the Activity L...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Restart of redirected recover

It should be possible to restart redirected recover in the same manner as you can restart the standard recover utility. When running redirected recover of a large group of tables, it is a waste of time to have to restart if an error is encountered...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 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

Export / Import Environment of History Manager logs

We have a major change in MDM Production Architecture / Environment.To reach target architecture, we are going to "merge" 2 business entities working in 2 distincts MDM instances into one single MDM instance.To execute this operation, we need to e...
over 7 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration