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Please Add Red Hat 9 as the support OS for IBM DataStage 11.7 or the next available version of DataStage

We are currently on DataStage 11.7.1 on Red Hat Linux 7.9 which will be out of support soon. We need to migrate our DataStage installation for Red Hat version 9. We need DataStage 11.7 to support Red Hat 9.
over 1 year ago in DataStage 2 Planned for future release

Flexibility to Custom Attribute in WKC

资产的自定义属性应支持添加限制条件进行筛选。如术语的自定义属性,最好允许添加到某些术语上,而非全部术语。(Custom attribute for assets is better to support restrictions and filtering. For example, custom attributes for terms should preferably allow adding to some terms rather than all terms.)
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release

PAW - Possibility to access transaction log for admins/developers

In Architect/Perspectives there is the possibility to access the transaction log. In PAW there is no such functionality. It would be desirable to have the same functionality in PAW (for admins / developers).
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Load Metadata – change the default behaviour to “not selected checkbox” for the new tables

All new Tables receive by default a selected checkbox and therefore are being loaded by the next Load Metadata process, if they remain selected. If a lot of new not relevant Tables are coming, it means, that all of them should be excluded manually...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Planned for future release

Controller Web to have all Controller Classic features

Controller Web 104.1 should have all of the features available through Controller classic. Every application is moving towards achieving a web foot print and HTML5 compatibility. Users are loosing confidence on Controller Classic as other vendors ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Stop and start Query Engine via the interface

To reduce cost and energy consumption, it will be great to stop and start manually the query engines via the interface, or the shutdown automatically after x minutes of inactivity, and wake up on request (similar to wake on lan). We could have mul...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.data 0 Planned for future release

Support request for DBCS column name on Watson Studio dashboards

We are developing our customer's Enterprise Knowledge Platform(EKP) using Watson Studio / Knowledge Catalog etc. As some part of our EKP, we are using Watson Studio dashboards for presenting characteristics of customer's data (AI system activity l...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Planned for future release

DataStage - SurrogateKey file stage - Database sequence for Snowflake database

On CP4D DataStage dataflow, Surrogate Key File Stage supports DB Sequence for DB2 & Oracle databases only. As we migrated to SnowFlake databse from Oracle we need to read the next val using a SnowFlake database sequence; But we do NOT see an o...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Investment Elimination Template - restrict to accounts on the control table

When entering the investment elimination template/journal for automatic elimination of investments, the parent’s investment side of the investment elimination template is straightforward as the investment account is usually automatically selected ...
7 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

truncated hostnames in bjobs output

For a debug where hosts are available but jobs are not landing on them - I need to run bjobs -UF (or -l) -p2 This command generates below like data structure Slots are reserved for guarantees: xxx3-sim-d18-081, xxx-sim-d18-077, xxx- sim-d30-065, x...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release