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MDI is failing in the discovery stage due to a token expiration issue for a large number of schemas.

When an MDI job is running against Google Big Query it processes each schema to discover all of the tables. If the number of tables in the GBQ instance is large enough that the processing of each schema takes long enough that the connection token ...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

More efficient unique indexes for monotonically increasing keys and constraints

Currently an index on a SERIAL and other monotonically increasing keys only add to the last node in the index causing the node to split into two half filled nodes. Eventually a sufficient number of nodes have so split that the index's search effic...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Increase Database Name Length Restriction

Real Life Scenario: With Devops and the introduction of "Infrastructure as Code", a database build can be done via Helm Charts, K8's, Cloudformation templates, etc. Automation can dramatically increase how often a database is built and how many cl...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Make Db2 Connect ready for the future (which is already here)

Hi IBM Community, hi IBM Support, as part of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux version change, at the moment we have to set up many new server systems for the application software we support.Our application software relies heavily on DB2 and so the IBM D...
11 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

lsf.conf documentation should report which daemon(s) need restart

Every time an lsf.conf entry is recommended by Support, I have to turn around and ask which daemon (or daemons) need a restart, which causes delay. The developers already know what daemons are affected by the changes, please document which ones ne...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2

Exclude certain intercompany rules from reconciliation

In Controller Web, in the Intercompany tab, all intercompany rules are visible by default. However, most customers have IC rules which are only for elimination purpose and are not relevant for the reporters as they shouldn't be reconciled. The sol...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

Safer Payments should activate the key generated on KMIP server instead of manually activating the key on KMIP server.

We have to activate key created on KMIP servers manually each time before we can actually activate master key change. KMIP standard says it has to be managed by application. Need Safer Payments to activate the key before starting the master key ch...
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Not under consideration

Improved LATCH when index splitting

[Current Product & Version]-Db2 12 for z/OS-IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2Performance Expert on z/OS v5.5-z/OS v2.3-WebSphere Application Server v9 for z/OS [Environment]Data sharing in three-way sysplex environment [Problem]Our customer is us...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improvements to Drill Throughs

Drill throughs have been part of Cognos for a very long time, but there have been few improvements in the past few versions. I suggest the following changes: 1. Drill to block. I would like to click on a drill and have the target open in the speci...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Request is to make WLM Effective only on primary, on STANDBY it should not be in effect

Why is it useful? It helps us restrict the access to users who has readonly access on standbys to accidentlally connect to primary and run some rogue commands. who would benefit from it? We as DBAs, This gives us confidence on how we can use the r...
9 months ago in Db2 / Workload Management 2 Submitted