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Can we have tags be common across the account? instead of per subsystem of subsystem?

Right now, tags are not shared at all. each catalog has their own, a business glossary has their own, etc. etc. Tags, once created should be shareable to promote reuse and simplify the user experience across all of WDP.
almost 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Import journals while reporting takes place in a form

This enhancement regards Error 47 "The form containing the account is locked for update" inside 'Import of External Data' report. In a reporting process countries report their data in forms (REPO) while group accounting performs adjustments in jou...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

LSF Cross-Queue Fairshare needs new mode to perform fairshare over multiple prioritized queues

Currently (v9/v10), when crossqueue fairshare (CQFS) w/ DISPATCH_ORDER=queue is enabled, actual job dispatch is based on queue priority which overrides any fairshare calculated priority. In our opinion (and after review with IBM staff), this compl...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Need a mechanism to hold an individual transaction for vetting by Safer Payments, while allowing other transactions to pass

This would work with Safer Payments to allow valid transactions to flow through FTM for processing, while only holding back individual transactions requiring more time for Safer Payments/fraud team to investigate.
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 2 Functionality already exists

Unexpected DDF/RRSAF rollup records getting sent to accounting trace started with ASID trace qualification

This RFE is in response to IBM Service Request 64334 082 000. APAR PK12365 caused all DDF/RRSAF rollup accounting records to be sent to any active trace requesting IFCID 3 records regardless of trace qualification. This causes unwanted overhead an...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Completely drop storage of all data and index partitions with truncate table command

I just truncated 2 huge tables, after "alter table extent size nnnn".. It took a while for the storage to come down to new extent size, but only table partition shrunk. Index partitions was unaffected, still huge.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Display custom attribute with titles for Value and Description

Display custom attribute with titles for Value and Description. Without titles, it is hard for users to figure out which is value and which is description of the value.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Request for a parameter in DB2 z/OS equivalent to the parameter IGNOREWARNINGS available in DB2 LUW into db2cli.ini file.

An SQL stmt accessing DB2 z/OS 10.1, via ODBC, receives a code +354; such a code produces an error inside the application.The following is the SQL stmt that reproduces the problem, run via a bach job accessing DB2 via ODBC:printf("DSN8OIVP SQLExec...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IPM FP12, Using encrypted DB password means DB maintenance scripts cannot be automated

Ref - PMR TS004780329. Raising RFE as suggested by Support team. In DB.XML, we use the db_password_encrypted option, this is for security compliance reasons, and cannot be avoided. Since we implemented this, certain DB maintenance scripts now ask ...
over 3 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Data Flow Designer GitHub/BitBucket Integration

We are using bitbucket through command line for all our code migration activities. We were hoping to see Data Flow Designer provide a UI based integration with BitBucket and GitHub. However the gap is that for the connectivity to work, GIT needs s...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration