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PRESENTATION SERVICE SHOWS AN ERROR WHICH IS NOT ONE FOR PRS-PRO-0511 MESSAGE IN THE LOGS

Since Cognos Analytics 11.1.1 the cognosserver.log file shows an error message which is not one : 2019-02-12T07:00:00.079+0100 ERROR Audit.xts [Thread-401] NA Info Success PresentationService PRS-PRO-0511 A partial reinitialization of the XTS proc...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to control optimizer version.

Similar to DB2 z/OS Functional Levels and SQL Server Database Compatablity Level add ability to do the same for new optimizer versions. At least compared to the previous version. This allows more confidence for upgrades. This would allow upgrading...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

ADB25 - LISTDEF and TEMPLATE tables should be part of the system and not be allow to have DBA decide on the names

Currently DBA can create tables for LISTDEF and TEMPLATES. This can cause each DBA to have a copy of their own table, backup issues since they are created in the temp DB. These tables should be created within DBADMIN. The feature to create them ad...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

For Modify Utility, enhance to allow selecting SYSCOPY rows by TYPE (full, incremental) and DSN pattern (DBP.DB2.ICWKY*), Modify should also delete rows where there are no media.

Need to delete rows for Incremental ICs which are kept 14 days while the Fulls are 30 days. Can't do that using the current product.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CAF plan name new feature

There are applications that have hardcoded the plan name in their programs using CAF. In some cases, it is wide spread that it will take a lot of work coding and testing due to program change. To avoid the cost of coding and testing, can there be ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Manage APIs as assets in the catalog

The customer is managing its own proprietary repository of apis to various systems and databases. The content of the repository is a set of YAML files and JSON files. Those files contain metadata (I will upload to the case a sample yaml file) . Th...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Remove some of the restrictions related to SQLCODE -20555

There is currently a restriction on the use of archive-enabled tables and temporal tables in one statement: The execution of this statement leads to SQLCODE -20555: SELECT * FROM DB2.LZTB0586 WHERE VNR IN ( SELECT VNR FROM DB2.LZTB0520) SQLERROR O...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

When importing tables to module format label to remove and underscores and capitalize the first letter. This was something that occurred in the past and no longer exists.

In the past we were able to bring tables into a module and the label/field name would automatically update from user_phone_number to User Phone Number. This was a huge time savings for large tables.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Customer would like to know if there is a plan to include ZIIP processing for DB2 using Batch and CICS in future releases of DB2.

Customer would like to know if there is a plan to include ZIIP processing for DB2 using Batch and CICS. This would be beneficial to us and our CPU consumption and costs. Has a request been made already to allow ZIIP processing for DB2 via Batch? H...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Column Chart: independent column padding setting when the color field is used

When using the column chart with members in the color field, it would be helpful to add the option to use an independent setting for column padding (as now) and column color padding (this proposition). That would allow to set the padding of color ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration