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User Last Name field is empty in OpenPages

The users who get synched from Cloud Pak for data to Openpages should have proper first name and last name. Currently in Openpages full name going as first name and last name with empty value.
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas 2 Not under consideration

Auto update capability for Reporting Feature.

As of now in the Reporting feature when we try to start a reporting for few catalogs and projects and it's successfully gets completed after couple of hours and it will be idle, so here the ask is after the Reporting gets completed, next day I'll ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Need MDE execution statistics as like MDI in Reporting feature.

In current ICP4D v.4.6.5 reporting feature, after reporting gets established for catalogs/projects, etc. in the target database there is a table for MDI called metadata_import_executions but we didnt fine any similar table for MDE. So the request ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Request to Limit Connection Creation Process to the Source DB while running MDI/MDE

For Example: We have an Oracle connection with a limit of 20 User Sessions per user. When we try to run an MDI Job using the Oracle Connection, The MDI is exceeding the limit of Sessions ~20, here the problem is we are running this MDI/MDE on the ...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Informix incremental backups (L1)

Hi, L0 and L1 backups of informix are taking almost same time since it seems that is limited by disk reading performance: we are using IBM spectrum backup to backup. From IFX logs we see that they are using /usr/informix/server12/bin/onbar_d...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

FAP Service.properties - Password Encryption

Hi, at our client Atlantic Group d.d. during upgrade of PA,CA,CC client set request to eliminate all hardcoded passwords on any file on all models. We successfully eliminated them by using inbuilt encryption (e.g. in PA) or if password was in .bat...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Availability of Max used License Scheduler managed license token in LSF job records

License Scheduler keeps updating LSF job records for the actual number of license tokens used by the job. At the end, only the last used value of the license token is kept in the job records. LSF should record the maximum number of token used by L...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Not under consideration

Let Physical Detach and Attach Operations on the same table run at the same time

Today there is no timeout on Detach Physical Phase and Attach alter cannot run on the same table at the same time as Detach alter. Some detach alters are taking over 20 hours to finish placing daily partitions at risk of not being created. Also th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Build Compression Dictionary on Insert, if triggered by update or delete

There is already code that a compression dictionary is built, if rows are inserted into an empty partition. A compression dictionary is however not created if these inserts are triggered by update-statements, e.g. if you update on of the partition...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Extend policy and rule enforcement to Watson Studio

Policies and rules defined in the Knowledge Catalog do not extend to Watson Studio. The benefits of the catalog are the ability to quickly serve data teams assets from across the organisation to enable self-service analysis, "making data a trusted...
over 6 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Planned for future release