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Parrallel offload (Archive logs)

DB2 offload logs in sequential mode. We offload logs directly to virtual tapes and sometimes when have problem with tapes DB2 holds many full active logs. It'll be great if DB2 can offload for example ten full active logs in parallel.
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

schedule deliverer as a property

The user that an email-based schedule is sent from should be a property on the schedule. Currently, the sender of the email is the last user that modified the schedule. This can get confusing as a system admin may add/remove recipients etc on a sc...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Allow for LISTDEF processing when using CHECK Utility

Details: 1) Manual does not mention use of "LIST" on the "CHECK DATA" page. Example proposed syntax: LISTDEF CHKLIST INCLUDE TABLESPACE DB123.* CHECK LIST CHKLIST SCOPE ALL EXCEPTIONS 0 SORTDEVT WORK
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add/Pin user specific Folder(s) to left navigation bar

Majority of our users are using more than one solution and therefore need access to more than one folder structure constantly. Current possibility to add user role specific folders limits having only one pinned folder. Giving user functionality to...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

UDC functionality in PAx. Using a subset reference in a DBRW function.

The feature is not new per say, because it works in Perspectives. The request is for the function to use a subset reference in a DBRW function (the UDC functionality). Then a user can create a workbook with unique references and analyses data in a...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

either a flag to align the zero's of the two axis or a value to align them at

I'll like to synchronize the X axes for the Zero value, see attach file.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

db2adutl to report the size of objects stored on TSM

db2adutl to report the size of objects stored on TSM Determining the size of a DB2 backup object https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/determining-size-db2-backup-object describes a workaround for the missing functionality in db2adutl. It should be ab...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Allow actions in 'ERROR' status to be automatically rescheduled

It occasionally happens that an action will encounter an error because an incompatible utility is already executing on a given object. For example, when a separate RUNSTATS utility on an object attempts to execute while a REORG on that same object...
5 months ago in Db2 Automation Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow Filtering by Start/End Timestamps on "Autonomic Actions" panel

On panel DAJ$ALRT "Autonomic Actions", it would be very helpful to be able to also allow the user to filter the results by specifying starting and/or ending timestamps. When a user has executed thousands of autonomics actions over time, this would...
5 months ago in Db2 Automation Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow additional filtering on "Maintwindow Actions" panel

On panel DAJ$ALR2 "Maintwindow Actions", it would be very helpful to be able to 'dynamically filter' the results by allowing the user to specify values under the columns headings - very similar to the way that the Admin Tool allows you to do so to...
5 months ago in Db2 Automation Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration