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bhist should be able to parse job ids even if respective JOB_NEW record is rotated

Since the current bhist design requires JOB_NEW record to display a job's information, Opening a Request for Enhancement (RFE) on meaningful message in "bhist -f event_file" output when event_file only contains job records other than JOB_NEW, such...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Server Trace profile values should be tied to a specific subsystem

While in the ISPF Server Trace, I can set profile values in order to limit the number of records being viewed. These profiles should be specific to the subsystem that I am currently connected to instead of a global variable that applies to the ISP...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Return sql warning when zero/spaces are returned for invalid values in host files.

DVM allows us to turn on parameters like SQLENGIVZERO and SQLENGDFSHRC to handle situations where the underlying record contains invalid values or is shorter than the table structure. In cases where DVM converts values under the covers, a warning ...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0

Use hexadecimal attributes as reference attribute in counters

Currently, Safer Payments only allows the usage of Numeric and Text attributes as reference attributes in counters. This limits the usage of counters with computation "Most occurrence value" to those two types.
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

TM1WEB Custom Number Format (Round to Thousands)

The ROUND TO THOUSANDS and ROUND TO MILLION excel custom number format doesn't work in TM1WEB (non english language ,non english regional settings). I.E.: #.###. or #.###.. (dots after the number format).They worked fine in the previous release (T...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

allow "COMMENT ON" statement to add comments longer than 254-char to 2000

254-char long field too small to store comments attached to added objects (views, nicknames, columns, indices) when apps migrated from ORACLE to DB2
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Support Custom URL for documents from Cognos for Office

In Cognos 10.2.2 it was possible to write a custom URL for documents uploaded by Cognos for Office.Here we had a search path and a default action URL.With the combination of action URL (the ID has to be replaced by the search path) we always had t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Masking

Column mask : A column mask specifies the value to be returned for a specified column based on the role. Example: Paul from the payroll department can see the social security number of the employee whose employee number is 123456. Mary who is a ma...
over 3 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Communications Buffer Monitoring Support (CBMS) feature on Informix V11.7

Request to back port Informix internal RTC # 22663 to V11.7 Feature abstract :IBM Infosphere Guardium provides a database auditing solution that reads the traffic between the database server and clients. It is prevented from analyzing the communic...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Remotely disconnect

We have a number of users for SPSS. We use the concurrent license that works with the Sentinel License Manager (SLM). For us, it would be interesting to have the possibility to remotely disconnect a user and withdraw the license.
over 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration