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QRep Automatic Refresh with ICU Decoding

ICBC load existing data from z/OS db2 to Oracle: z/OS exported file -> UDS (ICBC application) decoding -> SQL Loader import to Oracle DB. For QREP automatic Refresh, decoding with customized decoding rule is required. It should be:z/OS expor...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

Alternative of Updating All or Changed Fields for SQL Update

When replication of SQL Update, only changed fields are updated now. The data consistency cannot be guaranteed if any changes are happened during the period of no replication is executed. All fields updating is required for SQL Update data replica...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

users of WDP, not just Data Catalog Admins, should be able view policies that are in place and they are responsible for following

Currently on the Admin of the policy manager can see the actual policies that are created. It's critical that other users should at least be able to view policies that they themselves are suppose to be compliant with, and they will be subject to w...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Controller web intercompany reconcile

At present all liability balances are shown as positive in the intercompany. This means matched intercompany balances show as unmatched. This is a key part of the appeal of the Controller web which would be extremely useful for our subsidiaries to...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

IDAA LOADER - TCP/IP Port

In order to avoid unauthorized use of the port number, the network team needs to associate the port number to the task that will be using it. Due to naming conventions, the Started Task name is 8 character long containing environment indicators (e...
over 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Controller FAP to continue do IP even due CAMID is missing from controller database

The FAP process for IP should not stop for a error if a user is not found in authentication source, or the XCAMUSER table is missing values for CAMID. The FAP process should jump over that user account and continue with the rest of the accounts. I...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

suspendGracePeriod is honored and takes precedence instead of the EGO Consumer's reclaimGracePeriod

asking for the feature request where the suspendGracePeriod is honored and takes precedence instead of the EGO Consumer's reclaimGracePeriod in cases where tasks continue to run for suspended sessions when hosts where the tasks were running before...
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Planned for future release

Show throughput (records/second) between stages in DataStage in Pipeline Run

Background: Databand's integration with DataStage reports record counts of inputs and outputs as metrics once a run has completed. In order to measure the efficiency of data being transformed and moved by DataStage, it would be helpful to see the ...
about 1 year ago in Databand / Feature 0 Planned for future release

Read execution jobs from Deployment Space

Background: IBM Cloud Pak for Data has the entity of Deployment spaces which is parallel to project. For Datastage, this means each job can be either in some Project or in some Deployment Space (Test/Prod/etc). Currently the Databand <> Data...
about 1 year ago in Databand / Feature 0 Planned for future release

Postgres TEXT data type to VARCHAR at Optim level

Optim version = V11.7.0.1 DB alias = PostgreSQL 11.8 Optim is extracting TEXT data type from postgres database as a LOB data, so unable to proceed with the masking on LOB columns. But even if we defined as TEXT data type at database level, the dat...
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 4 Planned for future release