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Optim to make use of REST API / S3 protocol instead CIFS protocol

The problem statement is below: OPTIM is unable the read any archive file from HCP device (cifs protocol used) and this has become more frequent for the past two weeks. The archive file written locally can be retrieved without any IO Error. The Op...
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Future consideration

PAW Action Button item box for Lists is too small

When you link a parameter to a List control type, the control detail field is used to capture the items to be displayed in the list. To see or edit the items you need to copy and paste outside of PAW to Notepad or similar.For example, a short list...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Allow for the parallel restore of multiple different db2 tablespaces when Incremental Backups are present

Refer to Case TS000107666 for more info. Allow for the restore of multiple db2 tablespaces in parallel when Incremental Backups are present. Parallel tablespace restore with incremental backups should accommodate: rebuild db restore (with subset o...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

bhosts and lshosts should have an option to let them perform more like the scheduler

Currently, if I have a host with two exclusive resources in the lsf.cluster file <hostname> <model> <type> 1 () () () (!res1 !res2) If I run the following bhosts command, it acts like "grep" instead of like the scheduler, and rep...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Change font size and color for value labels in dashboards

There is no ability to change the size and color of the font for value labels in dashboards. The font is fairly small and does not change with resizing.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Functionality already exists

STOP DATABASE(HHHHH) SPACE(*) RETRY(N)

We would like to have an option to set how much times STOP DB command will retry in order to avoid continues locks on DSNDB06 .SYSTSTSS while trying to STOP DB and update its RTS. Operation in TSO, z/OS, and batch: When the STOP DATABASE command i...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to remove the Archive tab of report versions

Customer would like to have an option to remove user/group/role access to the Archives tab in the report versions pane.PMR reference is TS001418135 - it seems the PMR ID still requires old PMR format.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Not show a null value in picklist for TM1 Web and TM1 Applications Web

Hello, When we make use of picklists, in TM1 Web in a picklist dropdown we see first a blank element and afterwards the picklist elements. If we chek the behaviour of the same picklist in TM1 Perspectives, we do not see the blank element. we only ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Option to terminate of SLB after timeout if HSM doesn't answer Flashcopy-request fast

I would like to have an timeout in DB2 for SLB-processing!If HSM is in error it may be able to accept the Flashcopy-request but not to fulfill it. To prevent 00D70044 there should be an option for a DB2-internal timeout of SLB-processing.If this t...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Auto-size INDEX_MEMORY_CONTROL system parameter and auto-populate SYSIBM.SYSINDEXCONTROL

To avoid manual analysis and reap the benefits of in-memory index structure / FTB. To automatically allocate more than 20MB (when appropriate) for INDEX_MEMORY_CONTROL zparm. To identify list of indexes that would benefit from FTB based on actual ...
10 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration