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Drill thru Map visualization with define properties

Drill thru Map visualization with define properties Some query items are not in the map visualization for the drill through. The user wants to set define properties like in a list, so he can drill through on query subjects that are not in the map
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Spark job will be fail when resource quota not enough

There are lots of Spark Job to run, if a job start and the resource quota is reach maximum, this job will fail. You will wait for job result to know is quota is not enough or you need to check quota every time when you submit a job. For AlibabaClo...
over 3 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration

Remove options for functionality Save on external Filesystem

We are offering customers to provide Reports via A2A which they have to store on the filesystem. Unfortunately many customers are using the standard report name to store the reports on the filesystem with the usage of 'replace existing files'. Due...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Informix auditing (onaudit) should be able to record feprogram with the "start session" event

In 11.70 (or earlier) IBM enhanced the client tools and server so that a string for the "front end program" is sent to the server. This can be seen in the syssessions table if a compatible Client SDK or IConnect is used. It would be very useful fo...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

on DB2 LUW , Create all indexes on nicknames, including those with key greater than 1024 bytes

When I create a nickname on a remote table with an index and the index key is greater than 1024 bytes, the index spécification is not created on the local database : There is no warning for this when the nickname is created, nothing in db2diag.log...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Future consideration

CDC support for mysql MGR

We used to plan a replication/migration from DB2 to mysql, but failed since CDC did not support mysql MGR topology, and that delayed our plans. Hope this will be achieved soon.
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Utilize IMS Catalog when creating virtual tables

Per IBM direction, we are currently working towards fully populating the IMS catalog. This catalog could be used in a similar manner to the Db2 catalog when creating DVM virtual tables. Instead of providing the DBD, PSB and copybooks when creating...
about 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Improve Session Scheduler by Supporting Per Job Accounting File Location

Main Issue: Unable to define a user/job specific accounting file location. Discussion: There is a lsb.params variable for the session scheduler account directory. That’s well and good, but it’s not in a very accessible location. It would be better...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Add Stats for parameter mirror_interim_commit_threshold

We've found that we have some large units of works involving tables being replicated that will actually fill up the log space on the target LUW system and cause Subscriptions to fail (I think the SQL code is -964). Setting this parameter appears t...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Remember Stats Selections Under Performance

When researching problems with replication, it is necessary to turn on stats to try to determine what the issue may be caused by. The Performance tab already "remembers" what tables are selected, but does not remember the statistics that were chec...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration