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Include milliseconds in any TIMESTAMP column. The datatype supports it, IBM, please value it.

There are many TIMESTAMP columns within the OperationalConsole application that do not have milliseconds valued and this makes is very difficult to get accurate timings. Here are a couple of examples, in the DSODB.JobRun table, CREATIONTIMESTAMP h...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add Relative Date on FM Package dates and measures in Data Module

Relative Dates feature is very useful for doing as of date analysis. but currently it is limited to excel file, data sets. Our users mostly use FM package to do this kind of analysis.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multi Row Insert

Support Multi Row Insert: insert into table1 (col1, ..., colx) values (1, ..., x), ... (1000, ..., x) ; Using Multi Row Insert multiple rows can be inserted with just one statement. Other RDBMs provide this feature with a performance improvement o...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Element to Element Compare using substrings

Allow references to specific byte ranges within an attribute for comparison. For example, consider building a counter with the intent of identifying a BIN attack/Credit Master attack/enumeration attack. Generally speaking, these attacks will origi...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Require that symA wait for an instance to join the cluster before returning it.

Require that symA wait for an instance to join the cluster before returning it. Currently the symA can return an instance before join. We can control this behaviour with a config param, but the default should be to wait.
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Add native "Cloud Events" standard support to IBM Mainframe software products similar to "OpenAPI" support in zOS Connect

"Cloud Events" is becoming an industry standard for async messaging and event publishing similar to how Swagger/OpenAPI specification became an industry standard for synchronous APIs. This also adopts another standard "Open Telemetry" that enables...
10 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

[OpenScale SaaS] The Japanese text in the vertical axis headings of the graph are upside down.

On the Dashboard - Model health screen, the Japanese words in the vertical axis headings of the graphs are upside down. - Throughput(API)- Latency (API)- Throughput(record)- Latency (record)
10 months ago in Openscale 0 Submitted

[OpenScale SaaS] The heading under the Quality tab on the dashboard is incorrect.

The heading under the Quality tab on the dashboard should be "Quality", not "Performance". Please refer to the attached screen shots. (JP, EN)
10 months ago in Openscale 0 Submitted

Mark an item to go to balancing function after payment repair is completed

Provide an ability to mark/identify an item in payment repair, so that the batch that contains the marked item will go to TCR, even though the batch is in balance. Right now, the user changes the amount to all 9999999999 in payment repair to force...
10 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Future consideration

Provide ability to update the extended MICR fields in the user interface

Provide the ability to update the extended MICR fields 9 thru 15 in the Payment repair and TCR functions. A use case can be to accept the currency denomination type (US or Canadian) for the items with Canadian routing numbers (RT format 5-3).
10 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Under review