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IDAA - DBCS character errors on IDAA table after loading data

Converting Service Request 53184,L6Q,000 to an RFE. When EBCDIC DBCS characters are loaded to an IDAA table on a MIXED=YES subsystem, the double width space character x'4040' is converted to x'FEFE' for GRAPHIC and VARGRAPHIC columns. This causes ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Bar particular DB2 group members from castout ownership

Currently the first member of a DB2 share group that lodges group update intent becomes the castout owner for that buffer pool. In the real world some LPARs can be significantly capped damaging write/update performance for the whole share group. W...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Job Activity by compute node

Problem: How to determine which job caused high CPU usage on a specific compute node. Workaround: Using the IIS console 'Activity > Resources' narrow down the window of the event that occurred on the specific compute node. Parse the 'dslogger' ...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Add Special Characters Such as $ to Account Code

Currently, our company has started using special characters such for accounts as we have run out of numbers. These new accounts with numbers and special characters (like $) can not be entered into Controller.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Technical Specialist- Information Server

With the Amazon S3 stage, our client would like to include the date_created field for a list of files in Amazon S3. Currently this is missing. I would like to read the create date for a file using the DataStage S3 connector, but I do not see that ...
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

TM1 AUDIT LOG DOES NOT CAPTURE USER ID OF FAILED LOGIN WITH MODE 5

Por temas de auditoria, estoy revisando los accesos fallidos de los usuarios que tratan de conectarse a planning analytics, solo que cuando se usa el modo 5 (PA - CA) esos registros no se ven desde los registros de PA, solo se ven desde CA, tenien...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CDA Insufficient Access Authority when logging on

Ref TS003663019 - When using CDA there is no option to log-in with read-only access so the assumption is that any CDA user could add, delete, or update a subscription. This is inapproriate for a Production Environment hence why we are experiencing...
almost 4 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Spaces in Column Name - unstructured stage or any Stage

Our team uses dataStage unstructured Stage for our integration nd ETL. However, we have Column names that have spaces, and unstructured Stage currently has limit on Column names not to have spaces. This limit should be extended and spaces should b...
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

Allow Owner and Giver to reside in different CIFs

Sample scenarios: An adult (parent, guardian) provides consent on behalf of a child. The child is a client, the adult is not. A company officer provides consent on behalf of an organization For both scenarios the following five cases are material:...
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Not under consideration

Hide password arguments which is invoked in instance of dsidocsvr

We need to fix the issue: Passwords are visible on operation system level when the process is running ( command uses the password as parameter ). Thanks For example: dsad1er 2359796 1 0 May 03 - 38:49 dsidocsvr UVHOME=/opt/IBM/InformationServer115...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Is a defect