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Show throughput (records/second) between stages in DataStage in Pipeline Run

Background: Databand's integration with DataStage reports record counts of inputs and outputs as metrics once a run has completed. In order to measure the efficiency of data being transformed and moved by DataStage, it would be helpful to see the ...
6 months ago in Databand / Feature 0 Planned for future release

Read execution jobs from Deployment Space

Background: IBM Cloud Pak for Data has the entity of Deployment spaces which is parallel to project. For Datastage, this means each job can be either in some Project or in some Deployment Space (Test/Prod/etc). Currently the Databand <> Data...
6 months ago in Databand / Feature 0 Planned for future release

The back button on the new asset screen is inactive and cannot return to the previous screen.

IBM knowledge catalog (SaaS) -> project -> (My project) -> [asset] tab -> [New asset] button ->[New asset] screen -> [Connection] tile The back button is innactive. To cancel and return to the previous screen, you must switch to ...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace: Maps more granularity

The Maps visualization only supports values down to 'Provinces' level. (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analytics/2.0.0?topic=svm-provinces) Request for more granularity of detail in maps. For Australia, would like plot against the maps down ...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide High Availability Solution

If you currently have QCapture tasks executing on an LPAR and the LPAR or Db2 member on the LPAR crashes, there will be an outage and latency. In an environment where we are executing an n-way Db2 Datasharing group replicating to a highly availabl...
8 months ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

enable to fabricate data for tables with circular dependency.

Currently IBM Optim TDF tool doesn't support tables with circular dependency. it doesn't even accept the tables with circular dependency to add into TDF project. We would like IBM to enable TDF to generate data for tables with circular dependency.
8 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Fabrication 1 Future consideration

Double " delimiter issue with HPU

When unloading from an Imagecopy using HPU, data gets unloaded like this : " 12345"~"SMA "O" DRAIN TILE CO. LTD. 05 while with DSNUTILB, it gets unloaded like this: " 12345"~"SMA ""O"" DRAIN TILE CO. LTD. 05. If you look at 'O' in the company name...
9 months ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Postgres TEXT data type to VARCHAR at Optim level

Optim version = V11.7.0.1 DB alias = PostgreSQL 11.8 Optim is extracting TEXT data type from postgres database as a LOB data, so unable to proceed with the masking on LOB columns. But even if we defined as TEXT data type at database level, the dat...
10 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 4 Planned for future release

Long term metrics for identifying trends

The ability to look at average cpu, max(database size), max connections collected at the daily interval (or online day verses off line day). Allows for easy identification of change whether business driven or application deployment driven. Typical...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Linking JN into a CA environment even with non-continuous protocol types.

Signal Iduna (German Insurance company) obtains their Cognos Analytics (on prem) out of an IBM Cloud Pak for Data license, which contains Cognos Analytics. In the Cloud Pak for Data 4.5.x bundle, CA 11.2.2 is the included version, which is current...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration