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Enable "overwrite encoding as binary" for CLOB

We have several CLOB columns in DB2 that contain binary data. Due to 0x00 Byte values we can't transfer them into a TEXT column in postgreSQL (0X00 is not accepted in utf-8). The Option "overwrite encoding as binary" on the CLOB Column in "Db2 for...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Ability to Change Table space page size during Redirected Restore

Hi,I kindly request for having the ability to change the table space page size during a redirected restore operation.Thanks
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Report Expression function "status" should catch out of scope data items

When building dynamic reports, it is sometimes necessary to build expressions that you know will fail in certain scenarios. In these cases having an error catching mechanism, like status, is incredibly useful. In this case I would like to be able ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Inverted Axis

When doing visualizations for management, typically expenses are a common topic of comparison, but with most bar/line visualizations having negatives farther away from the axis titles, it ends up looking wrong or not appealing. Allowing for the ax...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drop STP SQL with dependency of other STP SQL type NATIVE

We have a general purpose StoredProcedure (STPX1) that is called by other native StoredProcedures (STPA1, STPA2, STPA3, etc) that have CALL statements to STPX1, If I need DROP the STP STPX1 (for recreate later) I receive the error -478 for depende...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

PAW Text-Box/Title with dynamic Content from Filter

Reports/Dashboard are more readable if tiles point to the version and period shown in the report. "Revenue 2020 for Company A" could be an example.
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Add ability to recognize hand written text and fillable PDFs using SDU

SDU works really well for documents with printed text, but it doesn't recognize text in hand-written/hand-filled documents or forms. It also doesn't recognize text in fillable PDFs. It would be nice to have SDU extract text from fillable PDFs and ...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Dynamically Defined Reorg Mapping Tables That Use An Implicitly Defined Database

Currently, the implicitly created database works great because every instance of a mapping table is in a separate database.This avoids any possibility of database lock contention across multiple concurrent instances of reorg.The downside of the im...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Return Id's when a salesforce object is created with salesforce pack

When a salesforce object is created with the salesforce pack, the object id should be returned by the stage (output data).
about 6 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Specify Application Trace

Customer is complaining that he is unable to perform traces on DB2 threads coming from the distributed side. These threads arrive all to DB2 with the same plan name ('DISTSERV'), and the only way to tell them apart is to use the Correlation ID (CO...
about 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists