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PAW Plans: Locking assets of a task for further input after the task has been submitted

Currently, it is not possible to (automatically) lock associated assets of a task within a Plan once it has been submitted and is waiting for approval or after the submission has been accepted to prevent any changes to the entered or already accep...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Propagation of Indexes for Virtualized Tables to SYSCAT.INDEXES

Watson Query (WQ) is based on IBM's decades-old federation technology (DataJoiner, et al). In Federation Indexes on remote objects are propagated back to Db2 and populate SYSCAT.INDEXES. These Index specifications help inform the federated server ...
11 months ago in Watson Query 0 Future consideration

Oracle NEXTVAL function to a character column with Optim's propagation function

Recovery of a key by Oracle number distributor to a 'VARCHAR' column. The customer (COVEA, an ISP contract worth 120 million euros) would like to be able to use the NEXTVAL function to apply it directly to a column defined as a VARCHAR in a primar...
11 months ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 5 Not under consideration

Require datastage job interim run status in cpdctl dsjob jobinfo command output as same is available in classic datastage dsjob jobinfo option

Require datastage job interim run status in cpdctl dsjob jobinfo command output as same is available in classic datastage dsjob jobinfo option This option is used to get the datastage job interim status which is useful when we are trying to captur...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

identify unit of work in insync replication

On the occasions when or replication latency grows beyond our comfort point, we want to know which unit or units of work are driving that latency. We want to know this so that we can either cancel that unit of work or perhaps temporarily drop that...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic (Relative) Default Value for Date Prompt

The date prompt is used in many financial reports, Including quite a few that have specific relative dates (actuals for yesterday, actuals for last month). The date prompts should be able to set dynamic default values (current_date - 1), however, ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Mapping Enhancements

We need some enhancements to the mapping functionality of Cognos. Tools such as PowerBI have plugins to Esri that allows many GIS functionality to be done in the dashboards.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

DSNTIAUL should support input LRECL size of > 80 bytes and not ignore input beyond the first 72 bytes

It is sometimes easy to put SQL all on one record as long as the LRECL of that record is very large. It becomes difficult to parse that SQL so it is divided into 72 byte records. Currently, the IBM utilities have input files that can have a LRECL ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB(...) and [...] reference builder to be added to PAW

In architect/perspectives when you write rules, you have the ability to click the DB(...) or [...] to build references to other cubes or areas within the current cube. In PAW, there does not seem to be a function to assist in building references b...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

ifxclone to support DIRECT_IO

ifxclone to support DIRECT_IO Currently ifxclone changes the onconfig and removes DIRECT_IO
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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