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Map LOB-columns in DB2 to VARCHAR(32kb) columns in IDAA

At this moment it is not possible to use LOB-columns in the IDAA. This limits our use of the IDAA in several areas where data is registered in LOB-columns. We understand that a full implementation of LOB-columns in IDAA will not happen in (near) f...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Cluster restart

While using the script egoshutdown.sh to shut down the cluster a lot of grid processes (pem and ssm) survive and turn into zombie processes.Killing these zombies after running the script egoshutdown.sh leads to "Blocked Hosts" after starting the c...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Not under consideration

Support RBFOpt as one of the hyperparameter optimization algorithms in WMLA

Watson Studio supports RBFOpt off the shelf (see https://dataplatform.cloud.ibm.com/docs/content/wsj/analyze-data/ml_dlaas_hpo.html), but WMLA doesn't. The inconsistency between both platforms is surprising, and taking into consideration that RBFO...
over 4 years ago in Openscale 0 Future consideration

Multi-Measure support in Dashboarding Pie chart

Multi-Measure support in Dashboarding Pie chart would enhance the flexibility of the chart to work with a broader range of data sets. This functionality already exists in other charts such as the Stacked Column chart. This is a great feature becau...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add configurable per session/per PDQ thread log cache similar to Sybase user log cache.

For high volume environments OLTP environments e.g. thousands of sessions and HDR/RSS nodes add a per session/PDQ thread log cache. This is flushed to the physical and logical log buffers either when full or at transaction commit time.
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Optim ZO/S Enhancement request

Please see attachment for the 2 enhancement requests for Optim ZO/S.
over 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 3 Functionality already exists

Cancelling the report after using a specified amount of JVM to prevent Query service busy issue

We are facing query services busy failure in our production environment frequently. If there are more number of reports running and for any reason a particular report is consuming more JVM then it is being resulted in report failures due to quer...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SQLREP Capture and Apply

#1. SQLREP Capture Program problem There is no way to replay a single registration from DB2 log. Currently it is all or nothing when it comes to starting Capture from a synch point. This is a problem because customers want to have the ability for ...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Additional Implementations of Hyperparameter Optimization Algorithms

The current methods for hyperparameter optimization available in WMLA are limited. While the new BYOF framework allows end users to wrap implementations of additional methods, it would be desirable to have a few more ones supported by default: - A...
over 4 years ago in Openscale 0 Future consideration

Add the possibility to use the import specifications created in Controller Classic

At this moment, import specifications in Controller Web doesn't allow to use some elaborate operation like "IF", temporary fields,... It's a blocking point for a lot customers to use Controller Web.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration