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In the Catalog section, for a certain asset there's section "Related Items" - it has headers. I would like to use the headers for sorting. Especially based on "Item type". Now they seem to be in random order.

It is very natural to want to sort lists based on the values, I assume you have simply forgotten to add that functionality? we have case where it would be convenient to sort by relationship type, item type. Possibly by workspace also. You do have ...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Conditional Formatting - Duplicate values

It would be beneficial if, similar to Excel, end users had the ability to see duplicate values (conditional formatting) within a selected dataset.
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Expand/Collapse in dashboard

You're not able to expand or collapse a crosstab using a relational model. This functionality is only available using a power cube
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

z/OSMF workflow artifacts for Db2 UPDATE and ACTIVATE process

IBM z/OSMF workflows are being improved to be used for Db2 installation and migration. It would be nice if we have also the artifacts for the other CLIST processes: UPDATE and ACTIVATE. The UPDATE process is what we use the most.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow offline backup to automatically force all Allow offline utilities such as backup, restore, rollforward to auconnections

Modern enterprise applications are often using connection pooling for database access. Connection pools are usually monitored by application servers, and dead connections are reestablished with minimal delays..For offline backup operations, this l...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

OpenAPI Spec for CP4D APIs

UPDATE: Please see my comment below We have the need to automate Cloud Pack for data with the REST API. For this we would need an OpenAPI Spec File fitting to the CP4D Version (on premise) we currently have. This situation was discussed extensivly...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Not under consideration

I'd like to be able to push alerts from DMC to my central monitoring teams and tool (SquaredUp in my case). Or get an API to get alerts.

I'm running Data Management Console 3.1.12 to monitor and manage 125 database in our production environment. Today, the only way I found to get database alerts is to schedule a script that reads the alerts from my repository database and puts the ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Under review

Use package collection other than NULLID for CLP and Db2 Utilities

Db2/zOS colleagues want to get rid of lock issues with rebind of packages in schema NULLID, thus the decided to have Db2/zOS release specific package collections to provide actual and rebound packages for every Db2 release to the distributed (Db2/...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Restore of online backup taken with older Db2 version

Current product limitation don't allow to restore an online database backup that were taken with a older Db2 level than the on of the Db2 instance . Our production environement must be available on a 24x7 basis and this limitation is a serious lim...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to filter requests in the Task Inbox

Filtering capability based on Primary Category and Tag/classification, to be able to differentiate recipe cycles (tags) in different data domains (categories) and artifacts.
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration