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Improve Error Descriptions

Improve Error Descriptions Current error message are very generic and it is hard to understand what exactly the failure is looking at the logs Improve on the error reporting for users to understand the error without enabling traces to understand t...
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

MDC file last update date and time that is not cube specific

Provide a function or variable that would display the MDC file last update date and time that is not cube specific. This would be used in the Report tool win Cognos Analytics whether on-prem or Cloud.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom Schematics and SVG Support in Planning Analytics

We need to expand, beyond the current PAW (v64) offering of visualisations, new customisations for our users. Therefore custom schematics using SVGs is required in PAW for us to drive customised visualisations which would work in our PA environmen...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Run QWT against DB2 catalog copy

Since we don't allow our DBA's to do analysis and tuning in our production we would like to be able to run QWT against the production catalog copy that we have in test. The workaround we have is not really comparable but we have a routine that can...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow SPL UDR drop/recreate without taking an outage

Currently to change the body of an existing SPL procedure/function, even without changing the signature, requires an outage for applications executing those UDRs.The error returned is "9753: Unable to find User Defined Routine with the given id." ...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Tooll to be able add the Unload Utility and HPU

Have a process to unload test data and load it to another environment. Currently each database has 1 job where the elapsed time is very long. It would be great to have the tool load balance this over multiple jobs.
about 5 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Read access on the database in rollforward pending

Enable to select a table when a database is still in rollforward pending (at the end of a rollforward without the clause stop or complete)
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Informix auditing (onaudit) should be able to record feprogram with the "start session" event

In 11.70 (or earlier) IBM enhanced the client tools and server so that a string for the "front end program" is sent to the server. This can be seen in the syssessions table if a compatible Client SDK or IConnect is used. It would be very useful fo...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

PAW Administration - Databases > Threads - Recommended new location for ellipsis or 'More' icon, where 'Cancel' option is found to right of each thread ID.

In PAW Administration, if you navigate to Databases > Threads, and decide that you want to 'Cancel' a thread, the act of locating the ellipsis, where the 'Cancel' option is located, can be difficult if a user is not already aware of the 'Cancel...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search for Skills in an instance or between instances

It would be very helpful to be able to search for a particular skill ID (or skill name) within (or better yet, between) instances. This feature would allow a user to search for a Skill ID and find where it's located in a instance (or where it appe...
over 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

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