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Enable chunk rename during log recovery

Whenever Informix performs a backup of the rootdbs, it automatically backs up Informix critical files (oncfg, onconfig & sqlhosts). When the Informix critical files are restored via "onbar -r -cf only -t <A TIMESTAMP>", it restores the l...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Fast way to lock historical rates

For every acquisition I have to lock currency rates within the acquisition register and under Group/Data Entry/Historical Rates. If we acquire a group of entities it could be quite some entries.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

CREATE OPTION IS NOT AVAILABLE WHEN SELECTING MULTIPLE ITEMS

When selecting more than one Data Item, the options Explore -> 'Create' is not available. If only a single item is selected instead, the 'Create' option is available.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

RTM: monitor advance reservation

like for hostgroups, monitor system metrics like cpu, mem, swap, etc, number of jobs, of users, etc of of advance reservation created using 'brsvadd', visible using 'brsvs -l' comand
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

TM1 - Users not able to query all the members in default view

TM1 - Users not able to query all the members in default view. If we choose All Roots then we will be able to do the search for all members. Default view not pulling any results if we search for leaf attribute. SEV 1 IBM Case was opened for this ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Select Cases - allow ability to change default option of hiding unselected cases in Data View

SPSS 28 automatically hides cases that don't meet the selection criteria in Data View. There is an option to show unselected cases (like in older versions) but you have to set it each time a new instance of SPSS is opened.
over 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Functionality already exists

Application Object Space Limit Monitoring - Batch Alerting

We currently have an in-house written tool (in Rexx) that batch reports daily on any of our application objects across our Db2 Z/OS production estate that might be approaching theoretical dataset size / partition limits; so that we can pro-activel...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Future consideration

Add options for "recommend indexes" and "evaluate indexes" explain types to explain_from_section

When running explains from jupyter notebook, I prefer to use EXPLAIN_FROM_SECTION. However for in-depth analysis of indexes, I need the RECOMMEND INDEXES and EVALUATE INDEXES explain modes. These don't seem to exist for EXPLAIN_FROM_SECTION. This ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Passing Data item value on a line chart

When we have a line chart and have drill through. Cognos passes parameter or the data item which is a part of the graph. The requirement is to pass data item which is not part of the chart. In my requirement, I have a data item (hierarchy) of a di...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Recently someone accidently freed all packages with FREE PACKAGE(*) which took a week to recover all packages.

It took the entire DB2 systems and application staff a week to discover and bind all missing packages. Many outages were incurred during this time.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration