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HADR: Ability to take incremental backups on either host and maintain the incremental chain for restore

In an HADR environment it is not possible to restore / recover the database with backups which are taken from both sites of the HADR cluster (after takeovers). You have to use the backups from the one site or from the other site. You can't mix the...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Bulk renaming of query items in Business view in Framework Manager

We have Source view, Business view and DMR view. No shortcuts are used in Busines view and only English language is used in Framework Manager. We want to rename query items in Busines view in bulk so that source names would be renamed to business ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dimensions in columns in Trial Balance

Customers works more and more with extended dimensions. They have a strong wish and need to select to see dimensions in columns in the same way that you can select to see companies in columns.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

CDC Management console: Prevent starting subscription when sub is locked

It is possible to start a subscription in a lock state. When a CHCCLP script tries to lock the subscription, the script fails ("Subscription Already Locked"). By preventing the start of a locked subscription, will prevent this.
12 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

CDC - automatically add new column to table mapping.

Enhance the product to when a new column is added to the Source Datastore (DB2), and the column exists in the Target (Oracle), CDC adds the column automatically to the table mapping, without stopping the subscription. Similar to QREP ADDCOL For ex...
12 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to print the send any report output to a separate file.

(This option will become unnecessary if Option to remove or not display “Repl >” tags is implemented.)An option to print the report to external supplied filename, separate from the output. Name could be supplied by a “set variable” or pass as a...
12 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to print the “monitor replication” as comma separated report

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to print the “monitor replication” as comma separated reportA option to print reports in comma delimited format. For example: the “monitor replication” prints a formatted report, but would like to receive the report in comma ...
12 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

IBM CDC : CHCCLP: An option to “continue on error”

When running an CHCCLP script to start multiple subscription for a source/target datastore, say 5 subscriptions, if one of the subscriptions is already started the script fails and exit.An "continue on error" option will bypass the error and start...
12 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Allow users to move columns in interactive viewer

Users have the ability to set their own groups and subtotals within the interactive viewer. If I provide a simple list report to be used in the interactive viewer and one user wants to group by Customer and another wants to group by Project Manage...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

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