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Drill from PAX via right click

We are unable to drill through via a right click in PAX V40, we are required to navigate to the PAX ribbon to drill through to relational database. In PAX, users would greatly benefit from being able right click a cell in excel and be able to dril...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Chossing to return the lemma/surface form/both when a rule is fired

As of now the actual term in the text is being returned when a rule is fired. If we are able to choose lemma/ surface form/ both to be returned then it will be really useful.
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Adding custom metadata to a rule that is always returned when a rule is fired

Adding custom metadata to a rule that is always returned when a rule is fired
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Oracle connectors should support more flexible connect strings

The Oracle connector only allows configuring SID (or service)/port/hostname, whereas Oracle connect strings can normally be considerably more complex. This does not allow for connection manager configurations or even a simple failover pair of host...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

Admin Tool - MIG: do not allocate COL DD dataset for ADB2GEN in generate job.

When generating MIG DATA for objects in BATCH the program ADB28M allocates a COL DD dataset which is used in the generated unload JCL. This causes a security violation for unloads that are destined to run in production. Example: 1. In Panel ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Regularly synchronization between datastore and the active (started) Management Consoles

During the start of Management Console the available definitions out of the datastore are selected. But if there is another user in an active Management Console that runs with same datastore who adds new or changes existing definitions those will ...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

[GUI][Usability] - checked consumer admin users on consumer properties

On the consumer properties view (WEBGUI), there is no way to list the checked user for this consumer only or make the checked user in the beginning. It is so hard to look through over 4000 user lists to get Consumer Admin, Consumer User, etc.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

Load Alias on Demand

We used the parameter SkipLoadAlias in the tm1s.cfg to improver server start-up time by 6 %. However, this prevented Alias to be functionally used such as loading data using Alias in place of the principal element name. We would the feature to re-...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Gracefully handle table failures & send email alert

When a table fails due to structure or availability changes, the replication set should instead set the failed table to inactive instead of crashing capture. It should also send an email notification to alert of the issue.

Labelling a column changes access path

With table TB1(COL1, COL2, COL3, COL4) and index IX1(COL1, COL2, COL3), query: SELECT COL1, COL2, VARCHAR(COL3) COL3, COL4 FROM TB1 WHERE COL1 = ? AND COL2 = ? ORDER BY COL1, COL2, COL3; requires sort even though the order by is following ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration