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dmgetsubscriptionstatus command reports the same status for Failed and Inactive subscriptions

dmgetsubscriptionstatus command gives the same output for Failed and Inactive subscription and that is "Idle". If we are to run an User-Exit Program to automate the start-up for Failed subscriptions, we aren't able to identify the failed ones.
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Event ID 6645 Conundrum

Ideally every CDC Event ID should be unique and have a Unique description or Event Text. What we noticed is that the event ID 6645 could mean any of the following scenarios: 1. Exception occurred during replication. Exception at continue reading I...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

When a job is running and stopped by "bstop" command, the slots of the suspended job can not be used by other pending jobs. T

When a job is running and stopped by "bstop" command, the slots of the suspended job can not be used by other pending jobs. The behavior is not reasonable because it causes the computing resources are wasted. We request the slots of the suspended ...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Re-Start DataStage job (or sequence) with identical parameter settings

It would be a huge benefit to get an simple option to start a job or sequence with the identical parameter settings of the last run. Having Jobs with many parameters and parameter sets this takes time to do it manually and the parameters have to b...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Be able to add or remove stages on a link in DataStage Designer

Currently when you want to add a new stage on an existing link, you have to deconnect the link from one of its stage, add the new stage and create a new link from that stage (remapping the Input columns to the Output, which is currently not possib...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Improve user interface for Exception profiles

DB2 Automation Tool - Need to improve the interface for the exception profiles. 1) We would like to be able to document the profiles in more detail than is allowed in 1 line. 2) We need the ability to control the ANDing and ORing of the conditions...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

CLI to set property “Message Handler for Parallel Jobs” for DataStage projects

We use the property “Message Handler for Parallel Jobs” at project level in some DataStage projects. To define the message handler, we start the "InfoSphere DataStage Administor" tool, select the DataStage project, then button "Properties" and tab...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Cognos Analytics - add a tool to easily export Customizations / Role Profile Priorities

Provide a tool, that lists all Customizations and Priorities applied to Roles. The tool should start to list all Customizations that deviate from the Default values per Role.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Column headers in crosstabs

Add column headers to crosstabs. By default there are no headers for dimensions. The lack of headers is especially difficult for users who export to Excel.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Operator action from CPCS Entries is not getting logged in SystemLogs Screen

When an operator manually updates a flag in CPCS Entries Screen, the detail is getting logged in Audit database table and not displayed in UI SystemLogs screen. It would be beneficial as MIS supporting the application to see everything on the UI S...
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Future consideration