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EXTFILE size needs to be in TCz

The size of the EXTFILE is actually hard coded in the skeleton. Other than reducing the scan range (currently 3 and 7 hrs), we can recommend updating the skeleton. For the transaction scan, you can edit SARYSLIB members ARYINBX (currently line 90)...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Split screen capability for SPSS Modeler

Ability to open secondary stream in a separate windows within the single license.This would enable which can be drag on the secondary monitor. This would allow to either work on two streams at once or monitor one execution while working on secondary.
about 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Not under consideration

Get the Cognos Analytics French Help go directly to IBM french help page

When a user clicks help ("Aide") From a French Cognos Analytics UI he should be directed to a French IBM help web page. This was the case within previous versions (e.g. Cognos 10.2.1, 8 & CRN1.1 MR4)
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make IDAA SQL Extensions available to the Db2 SQL API

By attaching an IDAA to our Db2 for z/OS we are adding analytics capability to the mainframe. Our data scientists are starting to exploit the capability, but need more SQL functionality (scalar functions) to be able to do analytics on all types of...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

LSF service protection for queries

Before I explain it,this feature request is very important to us because it affects the entire LSF service.If these features are provided, we believe that we can achieve higher safety for our LSF products. Suddenly there was a mbatchd load issue w...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Allow linked Visualizations in Reports

When visualizations are added to a Report, then filtering one visualization in a interactive report should automatically filler other visualizations if they share the same query. This is the functionality found in Dashboards and also the functiona...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Custom/User Defined calculation should respect underlying calculation logic in the application design.

Custom/User Defined calculation feature in PAW should calculate any Percentage/average for the selected Measures considering the calculation logic designed in TM1 but for measures that are Averages or % for example, PAW currently would only give a...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IWA: Need support for SQL function INSTR(), i.e., in-string

Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) does not support the SQL function INSTR(), which allows us to search a substring within a string, and gets the location or character position of that substring inside the string. Informix does support substring...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DFD Icons

We need that read-only dfd (Datastage Flow Designer) users are not able to click the icons and links corresponding to the operations they cannot perform. For example, We would like that read-only user not to be able to click on the job creation link.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Proper Error notifications for CDC capture and apply SQLCODE

We recently had issue where CDC plan on Zos Capture was bound to a wrong collection and resulted in one capture referencing the metadata of another capture. Case TS008690724. when this happened a +100 sqlcode was shown in the capture log but there...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release