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"smooth" way to delete an index by mark the index deprecated before drop

We would like to have an option to drop an index in a "smooth" way. package invalidation Idea is, that an index could be marked as "deprecated". This should have the effect, that this index is no longer chosen during BIND/REBIND for use in new c...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enable Symphony to automatically recover Master and SSM pod states even when their IP addresses change after failure recovery

IBM Platform Symphony currently supports automatic failure recovery of the Master and SSM instances when they rejoin the cluster with the same IP address. However, in environments where Master and SSM pods are orchestrated (e.g., Kubernetes), reco...
2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

SCH Job Monitoring / Job History should display the lastest SDC ID(s) on which a failover retry was attempted

When an SCH job fails over and enters INACTIVE_RED, there is currently no way for end users to tell via the Job Monitoring UI or Job History UI which SDC ID(s) the job is currently attempting to be retried on if the job is failing due to a START_E...
2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Allow sort by column measure of crosstab on a dashboard

The Crosstab visualization on a dashboard does not allow for sorting based on the measures displayed in a column.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Ability to disable job requeuing in google resource connector when jobs exit with TERM_RC_RECLAIM

We have jobs that should not be requeued after partially running due to corrupting the job output data. We would like to have a queue level parameter to disable requeuing of jobs that exit for TERM_RC_RECLAIM. To be consistent with other features,...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Future consideration

Table partitioning for column-organized tables

Column-organized tables are currently not supported for table partitioning (e.g. PARTITION BY RANGE)..At the same time, table partitioning is used by many data warehouse customers to speed up ETL activities - e.g.:(a) load new data into a separate...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Ability to synchronize client security groups with PAW security groups

We would like to have the capability to map Application security groups to PAW security groups. Right now, we need to add individual users to PAW groups manually. If we get this capability, then we can directly map the TM1 security group to the PA...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Hyperlinks Directly Embedded on CA Dashboard

We would like to embed hyperlinks on the dashboard so we can have a direct link for our users to click into. We have thousands of records with unique identifiers linking them back to our CRM platform. It would be a lot easier to embed a hyperlink ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Planned for future release

Create schema asset when importing schemas

Create an asset/object for the schema imported, along with its associated metadata like schema description. The new asset would be available at the catalog, and users would be able to see its relationship (data assets associated, business terms/cl...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 6 Planned for future release

RUNSTATS to Always Sample at least one row

Modify RUNSTATS utility to always sample at least one row of every non-empty TS/partition event when TABLESAMPLE number is low.
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review