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From the OC set the GENRELS = 'Y' option from the panel RFE 124526

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=124526 We would like to perform a "compare" between 2 tables ignoring any RI relations with the "child" tables.We do not want to ignore the Foreign Keys of t...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Snapshot to another Workbook in PAX

In PAX, the Snapshot feature only allows you to snapshot to the current workbook. Requesting ability to snapshot to a new workbook. With the current setup, after snapshot is done the user is forced to re-open the live report to continue working or...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for multiple SBSPACEs for LOBS (IBM Data Server Driver)

Our product uses smart CLOB and BLOB fields. Due to their size, they are split among multiple SBSPACEs. The classic Informix Provider for ADO.NET supports multiple SBSPACEs with methods such as "conn.GetIfxClob(tableName, columnName);". The Data S...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Add official support for Microsoft Hyper-V

It seems as Microsoft Hyper-V is gaining traction as a virtualization engine. Currently Cognos Controller only supports VMWare; but at least BI is supporting Hyper-V, so adding support, at least on a 'compatible' level would be a good thing to have.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Functions for converting Unix Epoch Time and Dealing with RHEL 8 Native Posix MQ

SQL scalar functions for Converting between human-readable date/time and Unix Epoch Time. For example: db2 "values ept2date(123456789,0)" is equivalent to Linux GNU date command date -d "1970-01-01 1234567890 sec UTC db2 "values "date2ept('now')" ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

RTM: add csv export icon to job graphs

add an 'export csv' icon on job graphs, like all other graphs, to allow export graph data to use it in presentation, etc...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Select future or past or range for ambiguous sys-date and sys-time

Currently the system entities for date and time make a guess to fill in portions of the date and time that are not mentioned by the user. For example: "Monday" could be in the future or in the past. "4/5" could be this year, last year or next ye...
over 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

stop use of LONG RAW data type in Oracle content store

For many years now Oracle has been recommending that LOB data types should be used instead of LONG. LONG RAW is used NC_JOBQUEUE.JOB. Use of LONG RAW complicates database administration, for example relocation and space management. http://docs.ora...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SQLCODE doesn't provide useful information when performing a SELECT on a DB2 table with Row Access Control implemented

We are planning to use ' Row access control' in DB2 as a solution to share some tables, but giving end-users/processes access only to the data they are allowed to see. We have found it really easy to implement (with the built-in function VERIFY_GR...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Don't kick off full recrawl if only the crawl schedule is changed on processing settings

Currently (WD 2.2.1 on CP4D) if you make any changes on the Processing Settings tab it kicks off a full recrawl, even if the changes would not have any material effect on the processed documents. For example, if only the crawl schedule is changed ...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration