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Open DataStage Flows directly from Watson Pipeline Orchestration Flow

Currently, DataStage developers cannot open a parallel job directly from a sequence job. In this case, providing a way to go directly to the DataStage flow from the orchestration pipeline that is invoking the job would reduce the number of hops/cl...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

A tool to copy/synchronize database schemas between environments.

A tool to copy/synchronize database schemas between environments. Dbschema does not help if a test environment needs a schema refresh. A tool is needed to unload the schema and then apply the schema into another environment generating with not jus...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Auto assign Data Classification

we will like to explore option to automatically assign data classification to the assets based on predefined condition. This is required as when we run the job to publish catalog, the software does not tell us which is the new tables being publish...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

It should first check if the schedule is not done and then trigger the job as per schedule to avoid one last trigger and job run timestamp modification.

The MDE job was scheduled to run every week on Sunday till 06/04 but the job definition modification time & modified by the user got changed automatically on 06/09. It should first check if the schedule is not done and then trigger the job as ...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Register all dependencies in SYSPACKDEP

Today SYSPACKDEP records the dependencies of packages - but not dependencies related to RI. That means that a user or a tool needs to run additional queries to understand all dependencies to e.g. answer the question: which packages do I need to RE...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Add Confidentiality setting tag to Excel outputs

More and more clients are enabling and using the Confidentiality settings in Excel. This means that any Excel file opened in their environment, that does not have yet a Confidentiality setting (Public - Restricted - Confidential - Highly Confident...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Allow the application of users local time on timestamps in data export

Safer payments generated timestamps are stored in UTC and are converted using the users preferences (my account) when displayed in the UI (queries or case management). When export dating the raw data is used and timestamps are exported in UTC. Thi...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration

Dropdata(-dropdata) Support for backup

In netezza, we have a good backup performance indicator in '-dropdata' option, which indicates how fast we can backup, without writing to filesystem. Having such performance indicator in Concerto will help to isolate issues for backup performance ...
over 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Future consideration

Need a way to activate TCP KeepAlive on management console

On an enterprise environment is highly probable that between the Management Console and the Access Server there are firewalls.Many times we get socket errors on the console because presumably the firewall closed the connections due to inactivity. ...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Not under consideration

Bufferpool Purge without database deactivation

Ability to purge the bufferpools (perhaps specified by bufferpool name) without deactivating the entire database. While dirty pages can be flushed from bufferpools with the flush bufferpools command, the bufferpools cannot be entirely purged witho...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration