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National character data type support in non-unicode database like Oracle

Kookmin Bank is doing migration project from Oracle. Oracle based on national codepage such as MS949 supports the unicode data types such as NCHAR, NVARCHR, NCLOB. Now Db2 supports them in Unicode database. The requirement is asking to enable at...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 0 Planned for future release

APIs for extracting some info from XMETA

We are currently using ETL jobs to read ETL execution logs(from DSODB) and ETL job modification details(from XMETA). This details are very important for auditing. In the CDP version, can you please include some APIs to get this information extracted.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ability to use nested labels for multiple axis charts

The multiple axis charts only support concatenated labels. There are no nested labels in matrix charts. The case of multiple axis is the same as the case of a matrix of charts, CGS doesn't support nested labels (just concatenated). Provide the abi...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

enhancing the procedure for estimating alpha Reliability

I just sent an article ms. related to reliability estimation. One of the main (accidental) results is that the procedure used in SPSS (listwise omitting) is misleading and VERY unstable against the missing values. When using the listwise selection...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Oracle connectors should support more flexible connect strings

The Oracle connector only allows configuring SID (or service)/port/hostname, whereas Oracle connect strings can normally be considerably more complex. This does not allow for connection manager configurations or even a simple failover pair of host...
over 2 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

New metrics for REST Services

Users of OMEGAMON for Db2 would like to see counters for number of bound & executed REST statements.
about 5 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Connectivity for Google Big Query

Cardinal Health is trying to move all data warehouse to Big Query. Teradata is in content state. So, it is very important for Infosphere datastage (11.7.0.2) to connect to Big Query. I guess IBM is releasing Big Query connector as part of IIS11....
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

make DB2_KEEPTABLELOCK more granurity like db2 z/OS

The DB2_KEEPTABLELOCK registry variable mimics part of the RELEASE bind option from DB2 z. The former controls specifically table locks and only applicable to UR/CS isolations, and it is one setting for the entire database. On the other hand, the ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Load Alias on Demand

We used the parameter SkipLoadAlias in the tm1s.cfg to improver server start-up time by 6 %. However, this prevented Alias to be functionally used such as loading data using Alias in place of the principal element name. We would the feature to re-...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Gracefully handle table failures & send email alert

When a table fails due to structure or availability changes, the replication set should instead set the failed table to inactive instead of crashing capture. It should also send an email notification to alert of the issue.