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Wrap tables

Create a new type of table based on the size or on the time.create table packagevent (.... ) with history based 1 year on event_timestamp / 1Gb. It could be an ITC table. The oldest data / extent are automatically reused when new data is added and...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

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-...
about 3 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.

Clicking CANCEL on "Report is Running" popup should not return to Public Folder, Should Stay in Prompt Page

Include Functionality Change in how Report running process is currently executed in Cognos BI. When the report has Multiple Prompts in 1 Prompt Screen and 1 of them is cascaded with the other, then there are situations when 1st Prompt selection ru...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow the user to save multiple cluster dashboard layouts by name

Right now, the Cluster Dashboard is very monolithic, you every time you go there, you have to set it up the way you like it. Yes, you can save the dashboard, but it would be nice to have multiple saved dashboards so that you can quickly obtain the...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Allow Tagging of LSF Clusters and Filtering from Dashboard and Managmenet pages

Currently we have a lot of clusters for various functions and purposes. It would be nice to be able to tag clusters by function, production/test/dev, etc and then be able to filter the various pages by tagname. It would help cut down on clutter wh...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

blimits -n to select multiple limit name

blimits man pages says that's possible to select multiple limit names but it's not functional. can you please implement this functionality ?
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Suport of double dash for comments in SQL

Optim Connect should support the use of the double dash -- in sql statements to denote comments. I know you can put in comments using the slash asterisk. However, when the business provides us with SQL to use, they frequently have comments in ther...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Allow Archive to convert to CSV without license for Test Data

We have to provide files extracts for areas in the business. We would like to have the ability to give a CSV file extract of the data. Currently, you have to have a different license to run Optim Convert. We would like to be able to run Optim Conv...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Estimate time for archive

This may only apply for Retirement since we use all reference tables without SQL. It would be a nice to have if Optim could have a function to take an archive request and attempt to estimate the time required to archive. I see this as looking at i...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Application Retirement 0 Not under consideration