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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 ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Design SPSS to Integrate With a Cognos Gateway

Please change SPSS to enable integration to the Cognos Gateway and exploit single signon. Similar functionality is available in Cognos Café.
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Copy a Dimension from Dimension Editor in PAW

In Architect, you can open the dimension editor for an existing dimension, click 'Dimension', 'Save As' and give the dimension a new name. In effect this copies the dimension and its element structure. In Planning Analytics Workspace, you can't do...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show IIPCP Eligible data in Operational Summaries and Activity by SQL Text

In CPU panel information it would be very userful to have information about IIPCP eligible data, I mean the CPU time consumed on standard CP for work eligible on IBM speciality engine (zIIP). Additionally this data could be used to create an excep...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Adjust F2 criteria for AUTO_REORG on adaptive compressed tables

AUTO_REORG uses reorgchk output, like F2 criteria. The problem is that F2 does not take into account pagelevel dictionary. The size can be important, like 5K out of a 16K page, and therefore F2 criteria is always below the 70%... and tables will k...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

REST API support for Rule Validation

The REST API should have support for rule syntax checking just like it does for TI syntax checking. Today you must "save" a rule to find out it is invalid.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Issue with DQ Rules for TIMESTAMP Data Type

We have compared data from Snowflake (SF) and IA. So when we bring in a table from SF into IA it is updating any column that is a data type “Timestamp” and the value for that column ends with a “0” Changing the value for the column to add a “T” wh...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

'Publish asset' permission in Watson Query

Customer requests a new permission in Watson Query to 'publish asset'. This permission should be assignable to any user, regardless of their WQ role. This new permission would provide customers with the flexibility to determine which specific user...
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

enhancement of behavior of common data download in hybrid environment

With current design, when SIM fails to download common data due to network error or any other problem, SIM will hang there and does not sense the error at all. This error is quick common in hybrid environment these days. For example, we've grids o...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Not under consideration

remove the need of backup/restore for Planning Analytics Workspace

can IBM put the data from curren PAW backup to a cube on IPA data server? remove the need to run backup/restore for PAW? for a pipeline deploying of PAW, the backup/restore process is especially hard to implement/maintain. Thanks.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration