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Allow reset of all High Water Mark Statistics values

Currently some statistics HWM values are not reset while Db2 is active - e.g. Q3STCTHW. Consequently a transient event can hide a long term situation. This idea would allow those statistics to be re-set to zero - allowing performance management to...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Support NamedRange when using TM1Web URL API

Referring to this feature: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analytics/2.0.0?topic=api-selecting-dimension-title-elements-websheet-objects Currently on TM1Web (aka Planning Analytics Spreadsheet Service), the URL API supports Title_S#-R#-C#=ele...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Conceptual overlays in Manta should support ingestion via git or REST API

Why is it useful? This help technical data stewards (TDS) who wants to create perspective on top of existing data lineage in Manta to simply the lineage for BDS (Business data stewards or auditors/regulators). Currently, perspective can be created...
10 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Planned for future release

Drafts should be available in the reporting DB

Based on our explorations it seems that drafts are not synced to the reporting DB. We are using drafts, and they are needed for our reporting - if they are not in the reporting DB some of our reports will not work correctly.
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Allow workflow scope to have multiple categories (subcategories of same parent)

Right now when creating a workflow, one can specify only one category - the selection is based on radio buttons. So let's say we have primary category "DSA" and under that we have four 'working' subcategories A,B,C,D. We would like to have an appr...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

RID problem instrumentation improvement

The IFI 2 & 3 fields QISTRLLM and QISTRPLM and the RID fields in the 316 and 401 are all basically “useless” these days to actually detect a RID related limit problem. I know that the QXRFMIAP is available in the IFI 2 & 3 but it is needed...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Functionality To Pass Dashboard This Tab Filter values with Invert i.e. exclude in drill through

High Level Summary ------------------ Issue IS Dashboard drill-through pass filter values with Invert i.e. exclude Issue IS NOT Dashboard drill-through pass filter values selected Issue IS Dasboard This tab, Global tab and Local filter options Iss...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future 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 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Reorg online on 24x7 applications

The reorg online process need to lock the table in order to conclude. This is not a problem when you dont have many transactions, but when you have a 24x7 intense workload you might have a huge impact on your application.
about 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

StreamSets Job Transfer to Different Engines

Currently we have various deployment and Data Collector Engines and at time due to Engine not responding, or creating a new version, or changing configuration on the Engine, we have to restart or replace an Engine, this process is not straight for...
3 months ago in StreamSets 1 Functionality already exists