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Set retention policies based on how frequently the data needs to be accessed, such as setting an auto-expire to every six months

As a Data Steward, I want to be able to set auto-expire date on a data asset, so that business users will automatically lose access to a given dataset after that date. Example: business user requested a sensitive data set for a specific purpose; t...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Ability to share widgets across User profiles

Provide a way to load widgets into a number of user profiles, just so their personalised dashboard would look the same. Some widgets are useful for a small set of users but not general enough to be shared across the entire dashboard configuration....
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Geocoding an address in the visualization map

Translate an address into Latitude/Longitude point in the visualization map
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

External Table support for Db2 running on Windows

Db2 running under Linux allows currently to use external tables. For testing, production use, migration and completeness those feature should also be available for the Windows (and other OS) platform. Especially as this is a potential replacement ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Redirected Restore on STANDBY for STOGROUP expansion

Case number: TS008472518 Our database was 42TB and the file system were 45TB across 12 file systems. I wanted to expance the total storage to TB by adding 12 additional file systems. I took a backup and did a re-directed restore on standby with 24...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Enhance the DISPLAY LOG COMMAND to show if a specific active log dataset belonging to one member of a data sharing group is allocated to 1 or more other members in the data sharing group.

This command would be useful to allow DB2 SYSPROGS/DBAs to see if a specific active log dataset belonging to one member of a data sharing group is allocated to 1 or more other members in the data sharing group. This would allow the REMOVAL PENDING...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 V13 REMOVE LOG command - SET LOG REMOVE LOG

Hi, Please could the DB2 V13 command SET LOG REMOVELOG be updated as follows: 1. An option is provided so the the command either works or fails? We want the option to not have REMOVAL PENDING logs in our BSDS after a SET LOG REMOVELOG command is i...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Allow the SQL ALTER statement to convert SYNONYMS into ALIASES.

We have over 800,000 synonyms across 100+ DB2 subsystems/data sharing groups to convert to aliases. In our production environments, the conversion of synonyms to aliases (DROP SYNONYM/CREATE ALIAS) is going to cause carnage because all of our prod...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Get back custom scale as it was in charts, zero suppress, custom maximum...

Graphical customization capability of reporting module had been improved as of release 11 but it is still well behind it was in 10.2.2, for example:- Bar charts do not allow the old option "stack 100%", it can be done by calculation but in that ca...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Action button support to sync a cube views with TM1 database MDX

I would like to request Action button feature support to sync MDX-based cube views from the current open page with TM1 database view MDX. Currently, when a cube view is created in a book, it loses its connection with the database and the original ...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration