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Support legacy application types in PAx

Application folders are not only used for Excel sheets which is the only supported file type in PAx as of v32. Applications are used to:- Consolidate TI processes (for admin and business users)- Link to views in control cubes for metadata review, ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

I would like to force the use of the "DEFER" option on the creation of an index (using Zparm to make it optional).

We have DBAs that at times (accidently) run a "CREATE INDEX" and fail to include the "DEFER" option. This is rather easy to do because the reverse engineering tools fail to create syntax with the "DEFER" option. The creation of indexes can be very...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Please add Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer without Adobe Flash

Currently the Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer requires Adobe Flash. The new Data Flow Designer by no means matches the capabilities and richness of DataStage Designer. Please provide the capability of editing the Assembly ...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 5 Not under consideration

Better tool for performance analysis and tips

Until now, we can use the tool "explain" to have a query plan generated or use "onmode -Y" for the same purpose. Next, we can use onstat indicators or SMI queries to mearure performance. Anyway, this has downsides:- You have to know the query for ...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Define _as_of_date within Dashboard itself

Currently, if you want to change the date of the current day, you have the option to use the "as_of_date" parameter. However, when working with a dashboard and needing to change the current day, you have to navigate to the "My parameter» and modi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Missing Business Glossary Anywhere (BGA) Desktop App on Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D)

Business Glossary Anywhere App is currently not available on Cloud Pak for Data. Business Glossary Anywhere is a light weight Desktop Application that gives lot of ease for the users to navigate and use the Glossary information which is available ...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Support Alation Authentication methods

Current State: Alation currenltly supports two ways of authenticating ( https://developer.alation.com/dev/docs/authentication-into-alation-apis ) 1. Register your application (Manta) as an OAuth 2 client 2. Use a refresh token Manta currently supp...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Needs more information

Manta microservices should restart automatically on failure.

Current State: 1. When a Manta user scans a large amount of SAS scripts or MS SQL tables, Manta Flow Server crashes due to out of memory (TS016760059). The cause of the memory issue is being addressed by the issue, but this product idea is this: a...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2

Being able to change the GUI language directly from the GUI

Currently Cloud Pak for Data uses the preferred language of the browser to choose the language of the User Interface. Several customers in Spain have shown dissatisfaction with the Spanish or Portuguese translation as it uses words that are not co...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Extend Schema Registry support to non-Kafka sources

CP4D support for the use of a Schema Registry is currently limited to Kafka data sources (ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x?topic=catalogs-apache-kafka-connection). However, Schema Registries represent a valuable method ens...
10 months ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

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