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Mapping between objects in physical data model (PDM) and its respective objects in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) during Metadata Importing process

Most of the customers use to use data modeling tools (ERwin, PowerDesigner, E/R Studio ...) to design graphically their database structures and then, automatically, generate DDL to build their physical schemas into different RDBMS such as DB2, Ora...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Db2 native and RACF security consistency requirement

This is especially important for shops like ours where for years DB2 native security and migrate to RACF security to be complaint with security audit and policies, and also new mainframe applications standards. There is multiple areas where curren...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add Official Support for Red Panda / Kafka for CDC Replication

Please review the Red Panda distribution for Kafka for approval. We have been assured that Red Panda follows the Apache Kafka protocol used by CDC Replication. We would like to have Red Panda added to the supported distributions for Kafka. Thank you.
about 2 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Breakdown of Estimated performance gain percent value for each Recommended Indexes (Used in Plan = "Y") in WhatIf Analysis

As per attached screenshot, there are 4 recommended indexes together provide 42.62% of Estimated Performance again if they are created. Its not possible to pick any one or two indexes instead of all the four indexes. If 1 of the 4 recommended inde...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Add new Turbo Integrator function that returns current TM1 instance name

Currently, there is no function within Turbo Integrator that returns the name of a TM1 instance when called. TM1 modelers have to either store the instance name in a cube or in a flat file and retrieve at run time. We have functions that return th...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration
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Ability to refresh prompts of an embedded report if dashboard filter(s) change / common prompting model

Our dashboards created for IBM sales leadership often have both native dashboard views and embedded/iframe'ed reports when it is needed for better data visualization. Embedded report prompts are hard-coded in a URL pointing to a report. If a user ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

In the "Availability" alerts correct the "Log Space" to operate on current space usage rather than top usage. I don't see this as an enhancement - I see this as a fix for a broken feature.

Currently when you exceed the threshold there is an alert raised. Once the usage drops the alert does not drop. The only way to 'close' the alert is to stop/start the database ('Deactivate') - ie an exclusive outage. In a production database this ...
9 days ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Add ability to set which folder file uploads are added to

Action buttons within PAW Book allow users the ability to "Allow file upload" when running a process which will prompt the user for a file to upload prior to running the process. At the moment this file is uploaded to the .\model_upload folder. Re...
15 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

A path to deploy bulk deletes without the strain stemming from entity composition rebalancing.

In our current bulk delete of a system (~144M across 4 record types), the TPS is very low as the process requires a constant kicking off of the match process, meaning that the re-balancing is taking a large portion of the compute. This seemingly i...
15 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Add 'net accounting of intercompany balances' option in standard report

Applicable to IBM Cognos Controller v 11 -> In standard report 'group / reconcile / intercompany balances', there is a default option 'net accounting of intercompany balances'. Such option doesn't exist in the standard report 'company / reconci...
16 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Under review