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Create a "RUNSTATS Check" report similar to the REORGCHK

Although there is an Automated RUNSTATS, some people prefer to execute RUNSTATS manually. Having some ability to run a report that "Recommends" that a table should have a RUNSTATS performed would assist in making decisions. with thousands of table...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Masked Data Customization

Allow more customization around which users can view the values of each encrypted attribute. This is currently handled at the user account level and a user may either view all encrypted/masked values or none of them. We need additional flexibility...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Filters on RDS With Composite Keys

Filtering on a large RDS is cumbersome especially when you want to narrow down a specific combination of a code and two or more composite keys. Please add an option to filter on the "Key" (code|composite key 1|composite key 2)
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 1 Future consideration

Avoid potential data loss in time intervals containing PIT ranges

If you want to create REDO SQL for a time interval, and there is a PIT range somewhere in this interval, Log Analysis Tool (LAT) will print this informational message ""ALAA156I: LOG RECS BYPASSED DUE TO PIT RECOVERY". The job will end with "RC=00...
3 months ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Synchronize by Book and Sheet

We have a need to be able to synchronize widgets by both book and sheet on the same page. For example, we have one page which shows inventory details (product name, on-hand quantities, on-order quantities, etc.) for a particular customer but would...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

LDAP Authenication for HQ

Allow the option to use LDAP for HQ Authentication. Build the user name in HQ but allow it to use domain authentication. This would also allow HQ to write backups to mapped drives. See Support Case TS007408895 for further details.
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

SaaS connection errors

Why does Controller SaaS enable sessions to remain open on screen and give the appearance of SaaS connection, when in fact they are deactivated or disconnected sessions? For example, where the user ignores the “idle timer expired” prompt and Contr...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Alter PBG to PBR should be possible for tables with LOBs

The statement ALTER PARTITIONING TO PARTITION BY RANGE should be applicable for tables with LOB's. One of the main drivers for us to convert from PBG's to PBR's is that our LOB tablespaces are growing very large. As the base tables usually only co...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Begin / End COMMIT instrumentation for DRDA, CICS/IMS

Complex CICS/IMS or DRDA transactions (involving multiple programs with an implicit Commit at the end) are incorrectly presented on the Omegamon Accounting Report/Trace. By design the costs of the tough SYNC (COMMIT) operation are added to the las...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Improve Space Search Performance for Nearly Full PBR

Currently, when there are many concurrent inserts on a PBR which is nearly full, CPU and elapsed time for inserts increases by many orders of magnitude, to the point where it can completely monopolize the CPU on an LPAR. In past discussions, I was...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration