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Increase timeout for Cognos Controller on Cloud & Excel Add-ins

Even when users are actively working on Excel for more than 60 minutes following a report refresh, the Add-ins prompt them to log out and re-login with their IBMid. This occasionally causes Excel to hang, forcing users to end the task via the Task...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Delivered

Allow configuration to abort Db2 restore if tablespace errors occur

Today, Db2 Restore can continue with a subset of tablespaces if e.g. same tablespaces fail to acquire containers. In the end of roll forward completes, but some tablespaces did not complete and remain in 'storage definition pending' and need to ha...
about 5 years ago in Db2 5 Delivered

Lineage from SAS-grid should be able to export into Alation with correct representation

Background: SAS files are being scanned from SAS-grid (local file system or git location) and Manta is able to analyse those files to create required lineages in Manta. Now, when we try to export the lineage to Alation we are not able to get any. ...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 8 Delivered

Add Restart Capability RFE 109421

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=109421 Add restart capability to HPU as illustrated in the Use Case to reduce the manual effort to change the control cards. use Case: Need to be able to restart. Without re...
about 8 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 3 Delivered

Avoid new workload during Db2 Restart Light

In a data sharing environment a Db2 Restart Light was needed after an LPAR outage to remove retained locks and resolve indoubt units of recovery.The failing member was automatically restarted in light mode on one of the surviving LPARs, and showin...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

lsf.conf documentation should report which daemon(s) need restart

Every time an lsf.conf entry is recommended by Support, I have to turn around and ask which daemon (or daemons) need a restart, which causes delay. The developers already know what daemons are affected by the changes, please document which ones ne...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered
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DB2 restart light invalidly accepts new connections

Merged
DB2 member started with light(yes) is not accepting new work, however it is still being registered and used as one of the available candidate members to connect in the datasharing group. As a result, thousands of jobs are potentially failing tryin...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Need ability to add a Restart button to give the customer the ability to restart a conversation

UI button? or Action based on NLU ? The question is how should a user be able to traverse the steps in an action. Will they get back (undo) and restart buttons?
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Delivered

Ability to add columns to DB2 z/OS tables without impacting IDAA or incremental update

Currently, adding a column to a DB2 z/OS table that is using IDAA with incremental update involves: 1) Adding the column in DB2 z/OS2) Stopping replication for all IDAA tables3) Dropping the affected table from IDAA4) Adding the affected table bac...
over 12 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

The LSFProxy does not print a 'total' count as 'badmin perfmon view' does leading to misreading of the number of total events since restarting

In 'badmin perfmon view', we always are able to see the total events for a specific output class. This is not possible in 'badmin lsfproxyd status' output. Please add that output. Specifically, we can see average/min/max rejections from proxyd, an...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered