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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 ...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 5 Not under consideration

zSort information in Utilities History

When running some utilities Db2 can choose to use zSort. In Utilities History (SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES). there is a column SORTNAME where you can see if DSSORT or DB2SORT has been used. The information if zSort has been used or not is vital as it can ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Aliases and Attributes to be available in the cube viewer

In some models we have various Aliases to cater to 3rd party system naming or alternate product codes. Clients want to see the principal name/description based on a selected alias but also want to add an additional Alias(es) to see an alternate na...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Allow modification of column-organized columns

Currently, in column-organized tables you cannot alter or rename columns and you even cannot drop columns. The only allowed operation is to add a column. This renders the column-based-tables pretty useless because in a normal environment, it must ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

IFCID 365 - Set variable QLSTNTLS to -1 for unknown.

TLS/SSL Used Number of connections from the remote site that were configured with SSL and AT/TLS support. This value is meaningful only at the server. (Field name: QLSTNTLS). We are reporting on this field and are seeing some values of 0 for conne...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow list IP addressed that can access Planning Analytics SaaS

I would like to have the possibility to whitelist IPs that are allowed to use PA AWS rest api. This would be needed so that nobody can use the rest api from anywhere if they have apikey. I am having problems with the customers as they expect the p...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Allow writing from the platform through a Hive connector

As we develop models on the cloud pak platform, we re implementing the following flow: - reading data tables on our on-premise datalake from a hive connector - training a ML model from a notebook environment - writing the output of models back to ...
4 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Additional Reminders - Leading to the work

It would be helpful if IBM can send 1-2 additional reminders to the client with relation to Scheduled Maintenance Notification.
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Request to modify the default command for automatic statistics update to allow user customization

I have worked on case TS017430261. Please allow users to modify the default runstat syntax used for auto runstat at the database level or schema level, not the set profile per table.
4 months ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Under review

In the views, allow option to customize validation message to include both dates that are compared.

When two dates are compared as part of a field validation, the validation message displays only one date and does not give an option to customize the message to show both dates that are being compared. Eg: When planned start date and actual start ...
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review