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Allow to call Lookup Service Provider using Data Store Alias

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over 8 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Delivered

IBM Data Replication CDC to support Oracle 18c

Out of our customer base we do have several requests for IBM Data Replication CDC to support Oracle 18c as a source and target.
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

SWIFT FileAct - enable FTM to receive the file as per original filename from sender

Issue: Upon receiving files using the SWIFT FileAct service, FTM renames the file to a different name from the original filename. Proposal: To provide an option for FTM to receive the files sent via FileAct as per their original filename from send...
about 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Delivered

Encrypted backup information in DB_HISTORY table

Currently there is no information on backup file is encrypted or not in DB_HISTORY table. Would like to see column indicating db backup entry is of encrypted db and backup file is indeed encrypted.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Delivered

This is a request for CDC/IIDR to provide an augmented timestamp, using an ordinal/sequence number on top of the Db2 LUW second granularity....to give better ordering for JMS targets.

FedEx initially benefits but later on all companies doing replication from mainframe platform to LUW. CDC/IIDR retrieves timestamps (via @timstamp) from the source DBMS. When the source is Db2/z, for instance , we return their timestamp which is...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Add lsb.params setting to limit the number of times a job can be redispatched upon either a pre-exec failure of job initilization failure

We currently have jobs that will bounce from host to host either based upon a pre-exec failure, or a job initialization failure. This can impact > 500 hosts and cause an increase in MBD memory use. It would be nice to have a setting such as: MA...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

Need a utility to save items in workflow collaboration area after adding new attribute in existing attribute collection.

Hi Team, We have observed that after adding new attribute in existing attribute collection, it shows 'Failed to get the entry(s), try again' error. Product needs to handle addition of attributes as a functionality because changes in data model ...
about 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Delivered

support for CHG_UPD_TO_DEL_INS=Y in Q-replication z/OS

we are on DB2 z/OS V12R1M509 and are migrating our applications from SQL-replication to Q-replication. we have multiple applications which use Non-Condensed, Non-complete CCD targets and are built around using IBMSNAP_REGISTER CHG_UPD_TO_DEL_INS=Y...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Delivered

Enable document URL links

When a document retrieved by web crawling is checked from the search screen, I want to enable a link to the original document from the URL in the meta information. The customer used oneWEX before, and has been migrating to WD Premium service since...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Delivered

Left, Right and MID MDX to be supported

There is a list of supported MDX functions. I am surprised to see that Left, Mid and Right are unsupported. Left and right appear to work in PAX, however, they do not work in Workspace. These are basic functions that are incredibly useful when cre...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered