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IIDR CDC Started task filling SYSOUT with no way option to limit it currently. Enhance product to filter and reduce SYSOUT logging levels

An S722 abend can occur when the SYSOUT output exceeds its defined limit. In a z/OS environment, setting DISPLAYLOG=TRUE causes all diagnostic log messages to be written to the SYSOUT DD statement. To avoid generating a high volume of log data, it...
6 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Manta COBOL scanner should support DECLARE table statement

Background Post upgrade to Manta 42.13.x from 42.12.x, we saw few parsing errors "ANTLR_PARSING_FAILURE". Failed to parse input at position 2,13 - the statement will be ignored. Parser error: no viable alternative at input '(' Parse trace: non_res...
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Planned for future release

Build client virtual folder sort order correction(6.1.3)

After adding files from mainframe, the virtual folder files are sorted based on the member name of different PDSEs but it's not based on the sorted order of both PDSE and members together. Good to have them sorted based on both so it would be easy...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Usage of Reoptimization for remote applications with DB2 Profiles

In many access path issues for applications with remote dynamic SQL statements reoptimization techniques (similar to the REOPT(ONCE/AUTO/ALWAYS) BIND Option for Db2 packages) controlled by Db2 profiles should be a performance benefit
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Persistent URL for glossary assets - do not change when new version is published.

Today, when a glossary asset (e.g., Term, Rule) is updated and published, its URL changes. The version number is appended to the end. We want a persistent URL that will always link to the current, active version of the glossary asset - no matter w...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to print deadlock information

Add ability to print deadlock infomation to the online.log. This should be possible to enable at the session level so if this is enabled for a session then if the session is involved as part of a deadlock the information will be written to the onl...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Filter by measure

Assume a view where in rows we have a projectID dimension and in columns measure dimension. Measure dimension contains numeric and string elements. One of string measures is a picklist "Prjoject Manager". There is a need for a project manager to s...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Optimize current implementation of S3 cloud storage

The current implementation of S3 cloud storage has some disadvantages. It's a "fire-and-forget" approach which has the following disadvantages in detail from our point of view: Files with the same name will be overwritten in S3. Idea: add a timest...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Use S3 for externalization of outputs

Our content stores (currently DB2) are growing through more and bigger outputs from reports although we have a rigid housekeeping. But in any case, we are limited to a certain content store size. And database storage is very expensive. File extern...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Only in-memory Temp table

Temporary table only cached in the memory, it does not to write into the temp dbspace.Requirement from China mobile (CMCC), CMCC use lots of temp table in the following 2 ways:Create temp table ... with no log; select * from tab into temp tabname ...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration