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Allow system fields to be used in Task Focused UI Rules

Allow workflows to be driven by system fields as well as values / enumerated strings.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Not under consideration

Dimension Reorder memory percentage change information

In Architect, it used to show the "memory used" and "percentage change" before reordering dimensions in a cube. However, in PAW, it can be only seen after applying the changes. Is there any plan to enable a "test" functionality in PAW too before d...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Role concept WKC catalog – all user with role CPD Admin should have admin permissions on all catalogs

In the current implementation, a CPD admin can not access all catalogs. It could be possible that , if the catalog creator left or is not available, no one can administer the catalog. There should be a super admin catalog role that has access to a...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

JDBC gateway change of mount point

During unmounting the zfs and remounting it on to another path we have lost Data sources, we would like this to not happen.
7 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Identify in projects deleted platform connections with a mark or warning.

Platform connections can be deleted and the projects using them are not aware of it till the time of using the connection. Concers: 1. The error will occur at runtime (scheduled or on demand jobs) 2. It can be difficult to track if the deleted pla...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Allow REORG INPLACE and modify REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS on ITC tables

Beginning Db2 v10.5, REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS on ITC tables also implicitly performs sparse extent consolidation before freeing empty extents ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/10.5?topic=enhancements-reorganization-make-table-maintenance-easier ). Ho...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

Manage TM1 instance administration programatically (on cloud)

Currently on cloud, there is no way to manage the start/stop of TM1 servers programmatically. The only way to stop/start an instance is by going through PAW Administration or schedule an automatic restart by asking the cloud ops. On premise, we ha...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

There is no method to quickly get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image

It is not possible to get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image without first restoring the image or by using 'db2ckbkp -l' but it is also too long as it has to read the entire backup image (this can be long if the image is stored on TSM /...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

Maintain catalog assets versions

Customer would like to see version changes in data assets (Technical metadata) for the custom attributes of the assets and column properties. This would allow them to easily have a view on the past 10 changes of the data assets.
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Need a utility to defragment large tables in a timely fashion when REORG is unable to reclaim space

Large, highly volatile, tables can become heavily fragmented when there is a significant amount of daily delete and insert activity. In some cases, the rows deleted don't leave enough empty space on a page for a REORG to clean up or reclaim that s...
9 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Future consideration