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DB2: Enhancing DB2 decision making during starting up in DEFER ALL mode

We would like to enhance the DB2 product when starting a database with the "defer all" zparm parameter. It is unfortunate that there is a limit of 2500 in place, and it is also unfortunate that the trusted context is not automatically built, even ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

IKC Data Quality Rules should have life cycle statuses

IKC Data Quality Rules should have life cycle statuses like business terms. Candidate, Approved and Deprecated. [edit] And these statuses should reflect also to IKC Data Mart it is only about lifecycle status property, but the solution would be to...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4

Show sample data from assets deployed in the catalogue in a custom order

Table data in a database is added to by thousands to tens of thousands of new records every day and in some cases columns. In this case, it would be very helpful for Data Consumer to have sample data of the most recent data to judge the data quali...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Under review

Lock shareholdings popup form in Controller Web for editing of transaction dates older than current period

When populating the account connected to investment in group companies the popup window ensure correct values being entered into the data entry form. The feature that allows you to add rows with transaction dates within the current period is a goo...
10 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Add auditing to Db2 profile tables

We need a way to determine who/what/when changed something on the profile tables. DSN_PROFILE_TABLE DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES Current tables have timestamp but it's static. Would be nice to have row change timestamp added so we have both insert and u...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add the option to set AvroReadSupport.READ_INT96_AS_FIXED Flag in supported stages(Amazon S3 Origin)

StreamSets Data Collector currently cannot read Parquet files containing INT96 timestamp columns, which were historically used by Apache Impala, older versions of Apache Spark, and Apache Hive for timestamp storage. When attempting to read these f...
2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Ability to select target workbook for an Export from PAFE Viewer

Currently in PAFE, when a viewer window is opened, it is inherently tied to the active workbook when the viewer is opened. Thus, when converting the viewer to an Excel report type, the Excel report is created in that workbook. There should be addi...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Convert lsfpollerd, licpollerd, and advocate to system managed service with Restart set to always

SysV init.d scripts are rather old, and do not support the monitoring and restart capabilities in systemd. So, convert these init.d scripts to systemd support and add the Restart option so that admins are comfortable knowing that the operating sys...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Planned for future release

FTM MER BAH

FTM MER should allow the entry and repair of the BAH fields. I understand in the early days MX messages most messages did not have A BAH block. However, since FINplus the BAH is critical to the message and FTM MER should support it.
2 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Submitted

Need UI feature through which the CP4D administrator can create and manage guaranteed resources pool(s) for high priority workload based on label selectors

CP4D customers (RBC in this case) have many users working on the platform to create various jobs, tasks and different types of AI/ML workload on daily basis. Some of these projects have higher priority and more strict timelines than others, wherea...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review