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Enhance OPTIM to default to "DOFILE_EXPANSION NO" on zOS.

Reduce SAVRS output by 90%. State Farm executes several thousand jobs a day when executing the scrubbing of our Enterprise Data Capture. If the underlying SAVRS datasets fill up, that causes problems, and they have to be prematurely migrated. Sinc...
about 10 hours ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Write Current Compression Dictionary to Log

Write compression dictionary to the Log upon its creation. This would enable true independence of data capture from actual table space availability and/or status. By implication, this might eliminate the need to write the old dictionary to the log...
about 12 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Update sample SMF166 record to include the STCNAME

On systems with more than one source and target server the SMF 166 record contains only the subscription 8 character name. Having the STCNAME for the Source and Target servers in the records will allow for easier monitoring and reporting using the...
about 13 hours ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Submitted

Mapping Leaf Level Node to a Higher Level Node

We have a use case wherein we intend to link a Leaf Level Node in Manta to a Higher Level Node considering the functionality of process flow among the applications from different technologies. Manta may already have an understanding of IFPC hierar...
about 15 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Use DB2 Storclas for extents during TS Cloning

I would like an option where the CloningTool uses the StorClas from the DB2 catalog for newly created datasets (e.g. extents).Currently only the following options are supported: no specification means the SMS StrorClass is adopted from the origina...
about 22 hours ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Hide selected visualization types from end users in PAW

Provides users with filtered lists of visualizations based on those most frequently used and those deemed to work best with underlying data sets. Removes end user confusion when shown too many options. Add visualization selection options in Custom...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

[GOV] ICP4D v.4.8.5 PROD Env (MDI) - Need option to skip asset/column description while publishing the project assets to catalog.

MDI Scan: Column description overwrites description in Catalog. Issue replication: Table and column description created through hydration job is being replaced after MDI Scan and publish in WKC "GCP for marketplace catalog". Expectation: Stop over...
1 day ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Kerberos Authentication for the Cloudera Kafka connector

We use kerberos authentication on our cloudera schema registry, we were told by Manta support team to disable the authentication on our side to try the functionality while you finish the kerberos authentication development. We have successfully co...
1 day ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Avoid potential data loss in time intervals containing PIT ranges

If you want to create REDO SQL for a time interval, and there is a PIT range somewhere in this interval, Log Analysis Tool (LAT) will print this informational message ""ALAA156I: LOG RECS BYPASSED DUE TO PIT RECOVERY". The job will end with "RC=00...
2 days ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

when NLU suggest relevant controls based on risk description currently openpages is associating selected controls to the risk

when NLU suggest relevant controls based on risk description currently openpages is associating selected controls to the risk. Instead if it can prompt the user wtih two options like "Associate/create" then it will be good for user to choose
3 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / OpenPages 0 Submitted