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Provide an Option to break out of 'bsub' if a job will not submit due to a user hitting their pending job limit

This is a major problem when using a web service to control jobs, you would much rather have the binary end with an exit code than continually block in a loop saying you have reached your pending jobs limit. It's really bad design behavior IMHO.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

TCR should automatically choose Debit or Credit Adjustment Type is the ADJ CODE can only be a DEBIT or CREDIT

When in TCR you must choose Debit or Credit Transaction type when Inserting an Adjustment. Some Adjustment are DEBIT only or CREDIT only so why does the USER need to select it should be pre-filled with the correct Transaction Type.
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Future consideration

Certify Information Server with SAS 9.4 M6

We are using Information Server 11.7.1 and have multiple ETL jobs that use SAS connectors to execute SAS code from the ETL server ( SAS 9.4 M3 ). However the SAS version has now been upgraded to SAS 9.4 M6 and the connectivity via the provided con...
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 4 Future consideration

Ability to import notebooks to access functions when running a notebook as a job

Within the JupyterLabs IDE users are able to use a package like https://pypi.org/project/import-ipynb/ to import local notebooks and access the functions etc within. This does not function when notebooks are run as Jobs. Scenario: Notebook A impor...
almost 5 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

PAW: More flexibility in assigning colors

Currently the sequence of colors in the palette determines the selected color per chart element. It would be great, if a user could flexibly assign colors from the palette to individual elements. The default could be the sequence of the palette an...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Add Stats for parameter mirror_interim_commit_threshold

We've found that we have some large units of works involving tables being replicated that will actually fill up the log space on the target LUW system and cause Subscriptions to fail (I think the SQL code is -964). Setting this parameter appears t...
over 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

The TCH Connector and TCH Simulator applications don't support the remote queue manager connection

The out of box IIB projects provide in the FTM IP package is coded to support the local queue manager. we have the IIB code hosted on Open shift and the Queue manger hosted remotely. With this setup, the IIB out of box code does not support remote...
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / TCH RTP 0 Future consideration

Enhance CHECK DATA utility: 1) to avoid SCANTAB and SORT when “SINGLE PARTITION IS SPECIFIED”; 2) to add PART range and parallelism option.

Currently Db2 does not provide either a parallelism option or PART range option for running CHECK DATA utility. Instead, as of Db2 V12, only ‘PART integer’ option is provided that repeating TABLESPACE database-name.table-space-name PART integer st...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance HVP Send to Channel Actions to Support for Routing based upon the Combination of Rank & Role

Enhance the existing HVP Send to Channel actions to allow a user exit to override and identify which FTM Service Participants the transaction needs to be sent to. The user exit should allow the customer custom code to identify zero to many FTM Ser...
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Future consideration

Locking of account codes to prevent data import

Currently, the Cognos allows data entry into account codes that have been locked for data entry when using the "export data" option in cognos controller link (excel add-in). The system should not allow the data to be imported (neither through exce...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration