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Start Commandline-Script in Stored Procedure

It will be nice to start a Commandline-Script like test.sh from attachement in DB2-Stored Procedures. In db2 commandline call it allready works: db2 " select * from (VALUES '`sh /tmp/test.sh`') AS TEMP(Testoutput) " Commandline Result: TESTOUTPUT ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Import Catalog metadata from a CSV file from the Desktop

When I try to upload a CSV file from the desktop that just contains column names and no data, the catalog cannot display the column names because it seems to think the file empty. The workaround is to add a few rows of "data" to the file to make i...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

manage threads with TI functions

provide TI functions for managing threads.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Format Classes for Objects for Standarization

Similar to classes in Cognos Analytics it would be nice to have them in Planning Analytics. This would allow an easier control over formatting of multiple objects, especially objects across tabs/workbooks. This would allow the capaiblity to contro...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support C&DS for Oracle 19.9

IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services 8.2.2 supports Oracle 19c as the solution repository. Unfortunately IBM supports only 19.3 release. Users who already use C&DS together with Oracle 19c and plan to update this database can't do th...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Future consideration

Provide greater navigation in report studio

In version 10 we could right click on a list object and navigate to the query behind. Now we have to user a few more clicks to get to this in a no so direct way.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improving the bridge FileSystem OpenIGC bridge to import Excel file with File Name and Folder

Only one bridge (is FileSystem in OpenIGC bridge) can import Excel file. But with this bridge, there are no File name and Folder hierarchy imported to IGC. Need improve it to more useful metadata to end users.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Treat "ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ROWID ... RESTART WITH ..." not as a schema change and do not require load of IDAA

"ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ROWID ... RESTART WITH ..." is treated as a Schema Change and requires that the table be reloaded. This Alter is not a Schema Change, please don't require a reload after it is executed.
over 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Bulk upload for training data

We have a JSON file containing all the needed natural language queries and examples for training WDS collection. It would be helpful if there is a way to upload these bulk of queries at the same time to WDS.
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

In IDA, provide "Space Evenly" buttons along with the "Align" buttons

When creating a diagram, it is common to have groups of symbols that need to be arranged evenly, so that the spacing is consistent between the symbols. Currently there is no way to do that automatically, requiring the user to attempt to do that by...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration