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Searchable Operations Console

Enable the ability to search and filter in the operations console. The ability to filter when viewing a job for a specific invocation id would be ideal.
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Add profile counter for number of long transactions since most recent "onstat -z"

Rollback most of the time is a time and resource consuming action. We would like to be able to monitor how many long transactions we (just a simple profile counter), as currently it is not easy and accurate on how to determine the amount of long t...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Set DB2 ZPARMs TSQTY and IXQTY to -1

Please would it be possible to set the DB2 for z/OS ZPARMs, TSQTY and IXQTY, to -1? Virtually all of our tablespaces and indexspaces are created with a PRIQTY and SECQTY of -1. It would be really useful to set the default values for TSQTY and IXQ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Workflow Enhancement -- Current Quarter and Year Function

I commonly bump into needing to fill in a drop down value with current year or quarter on a stage transition. I am request the ability for have a [$Current_Year] or [$Current_Quarter] function rather than need to develop a simple trigger to push t...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Full Entity Framework Support through DB2 Connect (Code First / Migrations)

In another RFE/Idea (IBMI-I-1135) asked for EF support to be delivered and the response was to use DB2 Connect. We do use db2 connect to get what support there is for EF but one of the critical pieces missing is code first and migrations. https://...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

Web Client and 'columns for journals'

The Controller Web Client is currently enabled for 'standard' journal treatment only, it is not currently compatible with 'journals as columns', as defined within submission set up.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to sort FM package field names alphabetically in Report Studio

In Report Studio, we would like to see a sort option added to the display of columns in a Framework Manager package query subject. Many times the columns are ordered a logical fashion, not alphabetically, but when there are many columns it is diff...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide performance enhancements to address the sort (for uniqueness required) in "distinct" or "union".

When sorting is used to eliminate duplicate entries to satisfy the "DISTINCT" or "UNION" construct, provide the capability for in-stream sort for this uniqueness so the entire result set does not need to be acquired and then sorted. I have seen a ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Highlighted Cells in Applications not Totaling in Footer

In Cognos Enterprise Planning, it was a function that allowed you to automatically calculate highlighted cells in EP Contributor. In TM1 Contributor and TM1 Web, highlighting a single cell will show the value in the footer, but selecting multiple ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CDC should be able to read Oracle logs with asynchronous read-ahead method

Oracle archive log reading needs improving.This customer has to process around 2.4TB / day of Redo Logs.Due to a number of reasons there are occasional replication stops/restarts. This makes the log readers to go back in time, forcing the read of ...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration