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Option to write informational or warning messages to flow log

Several customers use this option currently in DataStage 11.7. to write calculated values like UserStatus to the Job Log. In the past Basic Functions like DSLogWarn and DSLogInfo are available (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iis/11.7?topic=programmin...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Issue command DISPLAY DB CLAIMERS on a LOAD SHRLEVEL NONE when DRAIN fails in UTILINIT phas

We faced situations in which LOAD SHRLEVEL NONE jobs abends with S04E and Reason Code 00C200EC during UTILINIT phase. When this abends occurs, LOAD was unable to DRAIN all the claimers, once it is SHRLEVEL NONE, before beggining LOAD data into tab...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow customization per Cognos "Group" (not just "Roles")

Currently in C11 customization is only available per security "Role". If your security is based on Cognos "Groups" then you can not use customization. Please make it available for security "Groups" as well!
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Improve Look, Flexibility and augment the properties on Interactive Dashboard and Visualization (IDnV) Prompts

PLEASE start improving your PROMPTS in your Interactive Dashboard and Visualization (IDnV) I've been at this since Cognos 6, 7 8 and 10You prompts are old and don't do much.AND YES, even though some IBM reps claim IDnV PROMPTS aren't important, th...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Recommend/evaluate indexes – more information for each index

This is a point for tuning with indexes -> Tuning with indexes is still very common and useful. While using recommend and evaluate indexes it is possible to investigate each recommended index by updating USE_INDEX column in the table ADVISE_IND...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

“Select & Search prompt” is not available when using a Data Module source

When creating a new report based on a Data Module, users lose the Select and Search prompt, which is available in a Framework Manager package source. Please refer to the attached which also contains other enhancement requests.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0

Keep 3rd Party Software Current

We have discovered 2 third party products that run inside DSM that were not the current version. One was running with an expired date. Apache Derby and Websphere Liberty software were found to be running old release levels that are not being updat...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Remove all filters option for new dashboards in Cognos Analytics

Currently there is no way to remove all filters applied to a new dashboard or a regular Cognos report (without Javascript). Especially with the new dashboards using the data tray filtering, an end user can easily lose track of what filters have be...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Support Spark & Gluten in BlueRay

Now we are onboarding Gluten and Bolt has a very big ingestion need, we wanted to see if we can bring Spark and Gluten to BlueRay to further build a complete lakehouse reference customer story covering their full use case.
3 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Better Graphs and no sortheap spikes after DMC

More clarity of graphs values, easier to interpret graphs Sort heap spikes cause perf issues after DMC, No spikes i future versions will improve DB performance for all
3 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted