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Add option for a "stacked bar chart" in the Dashboard

We do a lot of metric reporting using this more granular type of chart for a lot of our metrics. Would be nice to have the Dashboard have this chart option, so we could replace some of our custom/offline reports with simple dashboard charts. For e...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Not under consideration

Reorg online on 24x7 applications

The reorg online process need to lock the table in order to conclude. This is not a problem when you dont have many transactions, but when you have a 24x7 intense workload you might have a huge impact on your application.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Allow for Altering the Partitioning Columns Through Panels

When altering the columns involved in partitioning a table, several steps must be done which introduces complexity and potential for errors. This is the current provided solution: Do a GEN on the table and save the generated DDL. Adjust the partit...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Delete DB2 Old Archive logs without stopping DB2

We have a lot of old logs in our DB2 BSDS that no longer exist. I dont find a documentation that explain how to remove them without stopping DB2 and in the DB2 doc : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=utilities-dsnju003-change-log-in...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Unload LOCK YES Drain Writers instead of executing LOCK TABLE

When executing HPU in Native MODE with parameters ULLOCK = YES, ULLOCKTE = LOCK and ULLOCKMO = NATIVE_ONLY HPU executes a EXEC SQL LOCK TABLE. Sometimes table being locked is in a TS whose a IX TS lock was left in DB2 due to this table be used in ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Show usage of user uploaded files in audit store so that we can ask users to delete obsolete files

Show usage of user uploaded files in audit store so that we can ask users to clean up unused or obsolete files.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW: Add drill-through view to workbench

Please provide the possibility to add a view, which is opened by a Drillthrough (via ReturnViewHandle), to a workbench. It is possible to add such a view, if one is executing a drillthrough in a book. But it not possible to add it as a new tab to ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Unable to clear error: IDAA 436: Failed to collect status from resource manager

The error below shows in the ap issues area in IDAA Appliance. We use IAS. Open alerts (issues) and unacknowledged events +------+---------------------+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+--------------------...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

PAW - Change default for TI parameter to String from Number

In PAW, when adding a new parameter, it defaults to the Number format. However, as a developer, there is often a need for a String parameter rather than a Number. While there is an option to change the format for multiple parameters, it retains th...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Extend Cognos Analytics product documentation by information about 3rd party certificates

I was activating ssl in a customer's productive cognos analytics environment. I followed the instructions of the corresponding product documentation for cognos analytics 11.2.4: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.2.0?topic=ecmica-conf...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted