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Do not truncate trailing blanks in columnar Group By

BLU columnar engine does not carry trailing blanks in varchar columns during GROUP BY processing. It does not bring non-normalized variant through the grouping operation
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Enable Alter Key for HPSS Archive on Partition Level

With IIAS 7.5.2 a new HPSS function was enabled . This function is the option to change the Organizing Key of an already archived table using ALTER KEYS. Although this improves our current situation the drawback of this solution is that ALTER KEYS...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Report Author Custom group_Select All Issue in CA 11.0.10

Report Author Custom group_Select All Issue(CA 11.0.10): When creating the custom group if “Select all” option is given for selecting the values present, only the values present in that particular range are selected. Rest of the values need to...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

MIG panel option for HPU Unload to allow selection of 'REPLACE' in LOADOPTS parm RFE 124519

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=124519 When driving HPU through a MIG Data unload/load the resulting load is always generated as RESUME YES.If the target tables already exist with data then we n...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Remove or Strip HTML tags during ingestion

Affects both ingestion and document conversion / segmentation. Benefits usage of the ingested content making it consumable in a more basic format. Original customer use case was to not only remove / strip HTML but also segment based on HTML head...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 4 Functionality already exists

bkill instrumentation/logging to find source

Currently the bkill command only tracks (lsb.events) who ran it, and what signal was sent. If we have a heavily active user with a broken script, it is very challenging to find the source of the bkill command. It would be valuable to log the sourc...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

form Lock enhancement

Currently on every monthly closing we need to run DB optimization for form lock issue and waste lot of closing time
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Change OBDRX2AC Tracking From OBD Level To TS Partition Level

Currently after an ALTER ADD COLUMN has been executed on a partitioned TS , all subsequent reorgs go through the compression cycle until all partitions have been reorged within the same modify recovery range. For very large TSs with many partition...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

json format of lsb.acct log file

It will help with using Splunk for searching and analysis usage of HPC.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Have to flip back and forth between Flow Designer and the Desktop Client

We are wondering if there is a patch already for this or if we can request an enhancement for something we see when using Flow Designer. Because we are building jobs in flow designer and using the Hierarchical stage, which can only be used in Flow...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration