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export data from tables out of a backup image

Introduce a new parameter to the export utility to be able to export data from a table that is in a backup image.This functionality is especially useful for data extraction without touching/impacting the source system
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Future consideration

PAW Exploration View Custom Column Headings

PAW Exploration view, would like the ability to construct custom column heading names and arrange for cleaner reporting display. Often using a stacked column dimensions, the column heading may show repeated elements, or displaying stacked colum...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Support for Platform Connections in Cognos Analytics on CP4D

Currently, as of 4.8.x, CP4D's version of Cognos Analytics does not support adding connections from Platform Connections. The customer requests support for Platform Connections in CA on CP4D. Additionally, Cognos Analytics should support both Pers...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Centrally manage hiding databases users don't have access to

Whilst you can hide databases in PAW and PAfE, they do appear to be separate solutions and not joined up. - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analytics/2.0.0?topic=wnim2-hide-databases-in-preferences - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analy...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Dasboard Export to Excel Format

Ability to export dashboards with layout to Microsoft Excel format
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 4 Future consideration

Need clarity on multi-select column analysis availability in IBM Cloud Pak - Currently available in Information Analyzer

There is a function in IA where you can select specific columns to re-analyze. Client wants this functionality in IKC. Please see bullet 1 in the attachment for screenshots and description. (bullet 2 is a different Aha idea).
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Oracle stored procedure support with DRDA-passthrough

We need to have support for Oracle Stored procedure and sequence using DRDA-passthrough. At the moment we have programs running on z/Os that are using Oracle client that is out of support and will no longer be working with the latest Oracle releas...
10 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Db2 TOTAL_CPU_TIME monitoring metric on AIX should reflect "wall" CPU time and not use PURR-scaled time reported currently by thread_cputime AIX API

Db2 monitoring interfaces report "CPU time" metric (TOTAL_CPU_TIME), which accounts the time that given activity/request (and all higher level aggregated interfaces) spent actively "on CPU" whilst executing the query. On AIX this information is ob...
9 months ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Future consideration

Applications and Plans: Ability to assign individual users to a Task

Currently PAW Plans and Applications only have the option to assign security groups as Contributors and Approvers, whereas we have the need to have the option to also assign individual users in the same way that individual users can be assigned to...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

REBIND allocated plan

Before going to Db2 13 we have to rebind some plans that were last bound in Db2 10. We have also previously got the recommendation to rebind all plans when we have migrated to a new Db2 version. We have a problem with plans that are always allocat...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration