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SaaS connection errors

Why does Controller SaaS enable sessions to remain open on screen and give the appearance of SaaS connection, when in fact they are deactivated or disconnected sessions? For example, where the user ignores the “idle timer expired” prompt and Contr...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

DDF Start with TCP/IP should be coordinated between Start Listener and Start DDF

During start of DDF inside DB2, DB2 start the Listener for TCP/IP requests and a small timeframe later the DDF. In this timeframe incoming requests are denied with REASON=00D31032 and follow-on errors. As an bypass we do not start DDF automaticall...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provision of remote repositories for consumption of external APIs/dependencies (.jars)

We are using the management-console-api (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/idr/11.4.0?topic=replication-management-console-api) to automate some processes that are currently running manually. We work with CI/CD mats that resolve dependencies through art...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration

Data validation or limitation for (string) cells

From Excel one is used to the functionality of data validation. It would be great to have this notion realized in TM1 as well. Our concrete business case is that users enter IDs for new elements in a business-driven dimension. These IDs should fol...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Coherence in the transformation (re-use of same code / tables)

Coherence in the transformation (re-use of same code / tables) - code assistant should have a knowledge of already translated parts and should be able to reuse them when re-occuring
12 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Planning Analytics for Excel: Ability to minimize/maximize the Viewer independently

When you open Viewer in Planning Analytics for Excel, the viewer is connected to this Excel session only. When you minimize Excel, you also minimize the Viewer window and you are unable to access it without maximizing Excel. Same problem happens w...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Begin / End COMMIT instrumentation for DRDA, CICS/IMS

Complex CICS/IMS or DRDA transactions (involving multiple programs with an implicit Commit at the end) are incorrectly presented on the Omegamon Accounting Report/Trace. By design the costs of the tough SYNC (COMMIT) operation are added to the las...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Unload to file should have option that prevents over writing of an existing file

A customer writes some SQL that captures the pre-data to an unload file and then does the updates/deletes etc. If the SQL is successful and inadvertently run again the initial pre-data will be lost.
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Future consideration

Require SAP Business Warehouse functionality

This was/is a feature in 11.7 and is not yet in Datastage Cartridge/NextGen. Needed for customer work.
3 months ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Support for Linux ARM

We need a build for Linux ARM64. Preferably redhat enterprise 8. We're aiming our software for the ARM architecture and CPLEX for ARM is currently only available on OSX, but not for Linux. This is blocking us.
over 1 year ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

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