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FTM Purge Utility : Support jdbc type2 connection on z/OS

Add support for jdbc type2 connection from the purgeDB utility and FTM core.This support is requested for 2 reasons :1 - Performance : With type-2 ( cross mem ), we expect to reduce communication overhead for jdbc link.2 - Workload Management : Wi...
almost 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Migrate function for MER-queues

We would like a migrate function like migtbl; for other queues that template-queues ie. a migrate-function that could migrate all message in MER with the possiblity so specify queuename. Function should have -rehearse option like migtbl.
almost 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Tool for reporting last-used dates and extracting contents from MER templates.

a) A tool for reporting the last used-used timestamp of MER templates.Refer to MR0816126628 , MER: Templates should get a last-used timestamp.The tool should create a file/report that identifies and shows details of templates and also reports the ...
almost 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Regarding 40873 311 758 - Length check in MER

As discussed with Gabi von Carlowitz, I opened this RFE. It is regarding the length checking functionality which is missing in the MER application to avoid that customer entered too long message and thinking that the message is valid.
almost 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Functionality already exists

Update new V12 RTS catalog columns after reorg

In Db2 for z/OS v12, there are new catalog columns in the RTS tables such as:SYSIBM.SYSTABLEPART-TYPE-PAGENUM-BPOOL-PGSIZE-DSSIZE- MEMBER_CLUSTER-COMPRESSRATIO SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE-PAGENUM -INSERTALG -PQTY-STORTYPE -STORNAME -VCATNAMEetc. These co...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

System Audit log - Failed login attempts

The idea would be to add functionality to record failed login attempts in the system audit log in Cognos Controller. It would be beneficial to have this shown in the audit log because this would strengthen the security of the application and the p...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Add Metadata to Cloud Object Storage file output

Saving a file in Cloud Storage creates a corresponding "outputDescriptor" xml file with some metadata information of the report execution. This Infos should be saved direct in the User-defined object metadata attributes of the S3 stored object. Ev...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow called Programs in z/OS to execute SQL without requiring the main program to be started with a DB2 plan.

When it becomes necessary for a called program in z/OS to execute SQL statements it is only possible when the main program is alredy called with a DB2 connection (DSN and Plan). While the required modification seems minor, it is next to impossible...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Advance property limitation

Please refer the Case TS006169109 where IBM Tech suggested that currently there is limitation of 20 parms that can only be added as advance property. We had a scenario where advance settings done at dispatcher level were wiped out (Report , Batch ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Aggregate awareness

Scenario: fact table with billions of rows ,reduce the cardinality and utilize a prepared dataset fact query table that has the aggregation. the user drops the items on the visualization and cognos decide which table to use and query . if the deta...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration