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To have "Sort by Nulls First/Last" option that can be set from FM

Scenario: Drag 2 facts (say f1, f2) from 2 different tables and a dimension to a Table visualization in Dashboard. After the full outer join happens, if only one fact (say f1) has value, then the other fact (f2) is shown as '(no value)' in the v...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

onunload & BTS and other blades

onunload/onload are valuable tools for migrating databases between instances. These utilities have not been updated to accommodate the new technologies built into Informix, especially Blades and BTS.
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Alert user about abnormal tablespaces on standby

In a HADR configuration typically customers use db2pd -hadr on the standby to monitor the state. On the standby if there is a problem with one of the tablespaces it'll be marked invalid and future log records against the tablespace will be skipped...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Request for addition of Group Processing Functionality in Virtual MDM at 11.6.0.11

We had discussed in past on the availability of group processing functionality and IBM MDM Advocate: Effy Wu confirmed that this functionality no longer exist in MDM version11.6.0.11. We would like to get IBM's recommendations on the alternative ...
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Planned for future release

Please unify the TLS version when creating a JDBC connection to the DB.

The version of TLS allowed when creating a connection in the control plane of CPD and when creating a connection in Flow Designer is different. * Customers who have problems this time are using postgreSQL. Connection in CPD control plane: TLS ...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Node Export to SQL: TRUNCATE instead of DELETE

Export to SQL node has an option to delete existing rows. This option creates a SQL statement with DELETE command, which is slow. It could be useful an option to TRUNCATE instead of DELETE.
about 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Enhance the processing of large db2dsdriver.cfg files with a large number of entries.

Larger customers with a significant number of database servers and databases have created db2dsdriver.cfg files with 1000's of database entries. The current method for processing these to make a connection is not very efficient and can significant...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Global Setting for Default Saved Outputs

The current default setting for saved outputs on each report is 1. We would like to change that globally to a higher number, 5.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Better problem determination when error message is returned to the job submitter

When running a loader job that fails on authorization the submitter of the job does not get a proper message. The message emitted by the IDAA Loader is "HLOU5715E Unknown error during IDAA validation". This is in par with the famous Microsoft Wind...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow user to sumit a job that that can override auto-attach and have a null SLA

Some users jobs are normally auto-attached, but there are times when they actually wish for those jobs to not be assigned to an SLA. Make this possible.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration