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Data Lineage Trustworthiness -- Disclose the source of lineage in the MANTA Query API

Preamble:Interactive Brokers has an imediate need for this but there may be other customers, in my view in mature or advanced levels of Manta usage, that might benefit from this. Interactive Brokers is currently using Manta to produce data-lineage...
4 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Macro functional parity of prompt/paramvalue and promptmany

The cognos macro language has the ParamValue function which is great for getting parameters without causing a missing parameter exception (and a prompt appearing). ParamValue can only be used for single values. It has feature parity with the Promp...
18 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Performance improvement for getPrimaryKeys() query for Snowflake target (Flexrep)

When the IIDR Target instance for Snowflake gets restarted, it runs the below query on Snowflake to get information about the primary keys for the tables. The query is fired for each table in the subscription. (we have 435 tables in the subscripti...
5 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

The default role of a new PAW user should be configurable

In PAW a new user is created automatically, when he logs in for the first time by approproate settings. In this case the new user is always defined as "Analyst" by default. I have a customer, who wants to have new users created as "Consumer". Up t...
6 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Allow ALTER TABLE xxx COLUMN yyy SET NOT NULL

The ability to change nearly everything about a column is really cool in Db2. Sadly, the one thing that you cannot easily change is the NULLability of any given column. This is definitely a requirement all over the place and currently can only be ...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Create report in new workbook (from viewer)

Currently, when you create an excel report from the cube viewer, it opens a sheet in the existing workbook. In our case, we have a Revelwood solution as our landing page and are unable to change sheets - so users are unable to get back to the land...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review
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Resolve a restriction that CACHE DYN STABILITY function can not use with CONCENTRATE WITH LITERALS option.

Customer environment Db2 V12 <- DRDA -> Db2connect/JDBC(IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ type 2) Server side.(JDBC Type2 is used) Windows server: - WebSphere BASE 9.0.0 (Windows2016) - Db2client / IBM Data Server Runtime Client V11.1...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Notification for Jobs in Activating or Deactivating After an Amount of Time

Control Hub Subscriptions events that would be the closest to monitoring this would be a Job Status Change. The job statuses Activating and Deactivating themselves are necessary and we would not want a notification every time a job went to these s...
7 months ago in StreamSets 3 Needs more information

Add migrations feature on Informix .NET Core

In real world projects, data models change as features get implemented: new entities or properties are added and removed, and database schemas need to be changed accordingly to be kept in sync with the application. The migrations feature in EF Cor...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

When executing an ALTER TABLE <table> ROTATE PARTITION please do NOT invalidate dependent packages

ALTER TABLE <table> ROTATE PARTITION is described as an ONLINE schema change. However in our 24/7 environment with tables being used frequently around the clock we cannot execute ALTER TABLE <table> ROTATE PARTITION on our most heavily...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review