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Create custom images for Spark Notebooks

Desjardins has a data scientist team and they would like to customize Spark images for various data scientist. Similar to what is documented here, but with Spark https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x?topic=environments-building-cust...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 3 Future consideration

Allow developers to set the column width for Cube views in PAW and disregard members as the context.

The general issue can be seen at this link https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?GroupId=3067&MessageKey=34afee39-b281-43ab-93f0-83b1d9e81797&CommunityKey=8fde0600-e22...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

View run history details for Interactive running reports

We have the able to troubleshoot reports running in background because we can view run history details as the reports are running in background. However, if the reports are running interactively, we cannot view run history details. It would be hel...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Drill through from report to dashboard

Our business users like controllers want to make detailled analyses if they find extraordinary values in standard reports. Therefore we want to create enriched self service data modules for them which they can analyse with the dashboard tool by dr...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Exclude folders from Cognos search

All folders in Cognos 11 are indexed by the cognos search by default. So the consumers also get the search results from the internal folder of the report developers. 1) It would be helpful to exclude these internal folders from the cognos search, ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Externalize non-DSC SQL in IFCID 316

An old request that got rejected but is for me, and at least 52 other voters, important was the IFI 316 for non-DSC eligible Dynamic SQLs. The business case here has two major reasons: First and most important these days – Audit. Any Dynamic SQL m...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Help for complex utilities

For complex utilities (I primarily mean REORG here but copy and runstats are getting there!) an addition to the OPTIONS with a new keyword SHOW or EXPLAIN or HELP. This would change the utility to be PREVIEW in all cases! And it will just output t...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

DIS UTIL could show also the Db2 Object involved

DISPLAY UTIL(*) is used daily, but it doesnt't show the Object involved/affected. This info is already in SYSUTILX so it seems to be possible to obtain it directly with the command Display. Currently, the DBA, Operator or Developer has to deal ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 9 Functionality already exists

IBM Change Data Capture High-Availability

ABN AMRO, one of the biggest IBM clients in the Netherlands, is facing a problem with CDC Software. The discussion revolves around improving the availability of the CDC agent in a Linux-distributed environment, replicating data from a mainframe to...
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Functionality already exists

Automate the clean up of files in Cloud pak for data

In a customer case after only 9 month the file-api-claim had over 800k files and it was suspected that we had a performance issue. We disabled selinux relabling But we also ran the cron job cleanup script. But this was not enough. We had to run mo...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Future consideration