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ENH: Add a macro function to calculate the datetime using the timezone set in the User Preferences

The current macro function toLocal returns the string representing a timestamp with time zone resulting from adjusting ""string_expression"" to the time zone of the operating system.An enhancement has been requested for a similar function that use...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

V12-CERT-2017 - Support for replication of REORG DISCARD events

When a REORG discard is run on the source side in a replication relationship / event relationship we want to be able to replay this event on the target side somehow. We do not want to do this by logging the discards in the REORG, of course. One su...
almost 8 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Add an ooption to export column names in the csv file

Add an option to the export utility to include the column names in the del file.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Chart Y-Axis scaling

Current behavior of the legacy PGSDK charting engine renders an empty chart using 0 to 500 for percentage format by default. We would like to have the ability to set this to 0 - 100.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

V12-CERT-2017 Refresh VIEW / CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW / VIEW VERSIONING.

While tables can be altered online; views need to be dropped and recreated, resulting in business impact or planned downtimes (our environment is making extensive use of the ANSI SPARC three level architecture, with many views and views on views)....
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 SQLCA feedback field indicating if this UOW is blocking others

On DB2 12 CERT (V12-CERT-2017) we discussed the possibility of increasing concurrency in DB2. In a typical batch environment we try to balance #of commits towards concurrency using a so-called commit-control-system that will have COMMIT on a numbe...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

"Data Smoother" regression line on plot node isn't able to add value with binary data

When trying to visually understand the relationship between a boolean value compared to a continuous numeric feature, the default and only choice for "data smoothing" is a LOESS regression line. It produces only a line that jumps between both bina...
almost 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Enhanced error messaging when loading external data sources to the input node, specifically SAS datasets with data issues

Currently, there is little to no error messaging given for loading data from SAS datasets containing data that is unable to load. In our case, a SAS dataset dimply fails with no message regarding a large dataset with a single row containing data t...
almost 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Infosphere datastage connecting to SCALITY - AWS S3 compatible storage

Hello Team, As per our client requirement, We need to establish the connectivity to SCALITY (AWS S3 compatible storage) from datastage 11.7.1 / 11.7.1.3 to place all our archival files into cloud storage. For that POC, we used S3 connector stage &...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Conditional Palette issues in Charts using conditional formatting

Unable to make positive and negative values as different colors using Conditional Palette in charts. I have tried many different things to try and get this to work with my report and have not been able to succeed. I have several different measures...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration