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Enable dynamic selection of Parameterset Valuefiles in Sequences

I want to have the possibility to dynamically choose which Valuefile of a Parameterset i use when starting a Job/Sequence inside a Sequence. Currently you can only Propagate the Valuefile choosen when starting the Calling Sequence or choose a fixe...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Enable use of DB2 Compound Statements in DataStage Connector Before/After SQL

As far as I can see, it is not possible to execute a DB2 compound statement in the DataStage DB2 Connector before/after SQL. The reason for this is, that you need to specify a statement terminator other than ";" which is currently not possible. If...
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Enable the setting of non key partitioning of a link on the canvas via right click

Currently when Setting the partitioning of a link you have to go inside a stage to the Input and Partitioning Tab, which e.g. in case of the transformer or lookup stages takes 4 clicks to get there (the shortcut via right click on the stage and se...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enable "Data flow cycle" in Parallel Jobs

Currently "Data flow cycle" are not allowed in DataStage PX as described in the error message IIS-DSEE-TFSR-00035. This maybe is correct for most cases to prevent wrong design, but it would be very usefull when working with parent-child hierarchie...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Deploy SDU as a Service through a NLU enrichment

SDU brings many use case possibilities, however being inside WDS, is limited to use cases where documents are stored. With the ability to deploy the SDU model to NLU, the outputs can be used in a more flexible way.
about 5 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Not under consideration

Preserving job array conditions in multicluster

Job array conditions are widely used on our machines to manage when jobs are dispatched. Certain workflows require specific job stepping. Job array conditions aren't present in a multicluster environment. Our workaround involves submitting a job i...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Provide a method to accurately obtain package executions counts from SMF records

SMF record information for number of times a DB2 package executed is incorrect. As an example, when a package is executed via a thread 10 times DB2 records the SMF information as 1. Our TDS tables are built using SMF information. We use TDS packag...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Display Record Counts on Job Desing Links in Operations Console

When viewing the job Run history in the Operations Console, I would like to be able to select a previous run and then display the job design with the record counts shown on each of the links in the job. Ideally I would also like to be able to see ...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Requested to enhance to display in Quick Scan Results >Action Required > Status column.

Requested to enhance to display in Quick Scan Results >Action Required > Status column. Currently if the quick scan FAILED there is no display of error messages. User has to open the quick scan job result and then going thru ne or two more s...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3

Requested to enhance to display all schema selection avialable in Quick Scan Results

Requested to enhance to display all schema selection avialable in Quick Scan Results >Action Required page. User need to scrolldonw all the 100 at a time. I noticed there are 2000 pages are there when I run a quick scan. Hard to scrollthru all ...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration