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Add support for a CLOB data type for MongoDB federation

Currently a long string or text field greater than 32k is truncated when fetching from MongoDB. This limits the data that can be retrieved and processed via Federation from MongoDB and other NoSQL data sources.
11 months ago in Db2 / Federation 0

Certify Oracle 23c for Federation from Db2

The next major release of Oracle (23c) is due out this year (2023) and customers will start to migrate their federated source databases to the new release. We need to ensure that we certify compatibility as soon as possible to keep up with the tec...
11 months ago in Db2 / Federation 0

Disable the auto assigning of data classes in CP4D

Disable the auto assigning of data classes in CP4D so we can manually assign the data classes that we want. Because currently we encounter problems like after we assigned and enriched, it will automatically assign it back. So, we would like to rai...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Support for SAP SRM connection via SNC

In Information Server 11.7 it is possible to connect to SAP S4/Hana ERP via APAB and BAPI connector with SNC. Please support this functionality with SQP SRM as well.
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Pause all scheduled project jobs

similar to idea UNIFIEDCAT-I-558, we have multiple scheduled MDI/MDE/DQ jobs all with various schedules. During WKC or source system maintenance windows or outages or to pause WKC cluster resource usage we need one global option to pause all sched...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Attribute in crosstab table in a dashboard

It would be nice to be able to display attributes of a dimension alongside with the dimension itself. Currently we can only display either the element or one of the attributes, but not dimension + attributes.
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

badmin appclose/appopen for maintenance of a specific application

For maintenance reasons it would be helpful to close/open applications for dispatching like for queues and hosts by the command badmin qclose/qopen and badmin hclose/hopen respectively.
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Allow Db2 ESAF interface with IMS to use PSB in place of loadmodule

Currently when a thread is created between IMS->Db2 the Db2 ESAF exit uses the Load module name to link to a plan name of the same name (or another name if using RTT load module). In a test environment there may be a scenario where several diff...
11 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Customers would benefit if ZAI/Spark residual directory and temporary file cleanup process go after the directory specified in TMPDIR environment variable instead of arbitrarily going to $ZAIHOME/tmp directory.

Our installation ran into an issue with the temprary files created by ZAI filling up /tmp directory. All users of ZAI would benefit from this flexibility to specify our own location in TMPDIR environment variable for the cleanup process.
11 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add the capability to write timestamp in a parquet file in the new format of Proleptic Gregorian calendar through Azure Data Lake storage connector

We use Azure DataLake storage connector to generate Parquet files in Azure data lake. Then on the azure end, MS ADF is used to load the parquet files to Azure Synapse. If we enable the use of Staging in ADF Mapping Data Flow on the Azure end, the ...
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

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