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Help text for attributes

The current setup with a Help URL is not sufficient for our customers. It is to technical and not user friendly. Also it doesn't work with Firefox, Chrome or Safari. We prefer a mouse-over text or a i / ? button that you can click with a pop-up.
over 7 years ago in Product Master 1 Delivered

Prevent underscores in column names from causing line breaks in headings

We have column names that consists of underscores as part of the name. After submitting a query using QMF, the reported output generates column headings that treat those underscores as line breaks. Provide an option to preserve the names on one li...
almost 2 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered

Parameter to suppress the generate of Grant Statements in Db2 Cloning Tool

When we clone tablespaces from a production to a test Db2 system we would like to suppress all authorizations on the target objects (e.g. tables, views), because users don't possess the same privileges in these two environments. At this time cloni...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Shutdown for InformixHQ

InformixHQ-Server lacks a possibility for shutdown. The admin has to issue a kill command from the command line with the proper (root) access. This is not at all satisfying. InformixHQ-agents can be stopped by pressing a button - as long as th...
over 5 years ago in Informix 2 Delivered

Db2 trace data should provide metrics related to secured connections (SSL, AT-TLS)

On our approach to convert all tcp/ip based connections to Db2 for z/OS to secured/protected ones (SSL,AT-TLS), we are missing a way to measure our progress here. The only way to get information about the portion of secured connections is (as far ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Change the "No licence available" message when trying to log into a database that is currently in single mode

If the system is set to single user mode, the error that any other user sees when trying to login is 'No licence available. Program will now terminate.'
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered

Numeric-only account support on Symphony 7.3.0

The client is using numeric-only account for over 15 years. It is difficult for them to change the account number to other ID including alphabets from now on. They need numeric-only account support to continue using Symphony in there environment.
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Delivered

Provide a flag for Cloning tool to unload/Load tables having RI

Currently, the Cloning tool does not Unload/Load tables that have RI defined on them. This is despite the fact that these tables become eligible for Unload / Load due to legitimate reasons like Source Target Mismatch where Source defined as a Simp...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 3 Delivered

Omegamon DB2 to monitor DB2/IRLM in reliable manner

Omegamon DB2 can slow down or even stop reporting IRLM information when IRLM becomes very busy. This is the most important time for Omegamon DB2 to report this information as it's the one tool to help SMEs recover DB2 normal operations. Without th...
over 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 2 Delivered

Make db2ilist more informative

Since db2ilist lost its ability to display the bitness of instances it was just capable to name all users, who have linked the sqllib directories. db2ilist would be much more useful, if it could show the instance type (server, client, ...) and e.g...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Delivered

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