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Enable copying of links in the Designer

Currently links can not be copied standalone, you can copy a stage/activity and delete the stage and all links you don't want to achieve the result. Especially for Stages where you have no Mapping folder (i.e. Shared Container, Modify Stage) to ge...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Enable dynamic selection of Parameterset Valuefiles in Sequences

I want to have the possibility to dynamically choose which Valuefile of a Parameterset i use when starting a Job/Sequence inside a Sequence. Currently you can only Propagate the Valuefile choosen when starting the Calling Sequence or choose a fixe...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Enable use of DB2 Compound Statements in DataStage Connector Before/After SQL

As far as I can see, it is not possible to execute a DB2 compound statement in the DataStage DB2 Connector before/after SQL. The reason for this is, that you need to specify a statement terminator other than ";" which is currently not possible. If...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Enable the setting of non key partitioning of a link on the canvas via right click

Currently when Setting the partitioning of a link you have to go inside a stage to the Input and Partitioning Tab, which e.g. in case of the transformer or lookup stages takes 4 clicks to get there (the shortcut via right click on the stage and se...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enable "Data flow cycle" in Parallel Jobs

Currently "Data flow cycle" are not allowed in DataStage PX as described in the error message IIS-DSEE-TFSR-00035. This maybe is correct for most cases to prevent wrong design, but it would be very usefull when working with parent-child hierarchie...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Associate or a Copy an object using Workflow or Calculations Engine.

I have a scenario. In OP there is a Data type of Business Entity selector. Let's Suppose A process is a child of BusEnt. There is a process that is associated with a primary BusEnt. Now If the User wants to add a secondary BusEnt using the Busines...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Deploy SDU as a Service through a NLU enrichment

SDU brings many use case possibilities, however being inside WDS, is limited to use cases where documents are stored. With the ability to deploy the SDU model to NLU, the outputs can be used in a more flexible way.
over 5 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Not under consideration

Allow TRUNCATE on table with users access

As detailed on Informix Manual , the truncate statement is considered DDL and not DML and not allow execute it even if there dirty reads over the table.The request: Allow run the truncate over a table even if there users reading the table.
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add possibility to create dashboards over several databases

I would really to be able to create a dashboard, containing the activity response time of my top-10 databases. Or to be able to look at the graphs of some databases in 1 glance.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Provide a method to accurately obtain package executions counts from SMF records

SMF record information for number of times a DB2 package executed is incorrect. As an example, when a package is executed via a thread 10 times DB2 records the SMF information as 1. Our TDS tables are built using SMF information. We use TDS packag...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration