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Double-Clicking on cube should open the default view, not the first private view

We set default views in our cubes for a reason, as they are the view we want to see the majority of the times when we open the cube. The issue with Planning Analytics for Excel is that double clicking the cube is opening the first private view sav...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Expand DB2 Profile Wildcard Support to Client Property Parameters

We need DB2 Profile table wildcard support to extend to the client property parameters: CLIENT_APPLNAME, CLIENT_USERID and CLIENT_WRKSTNNAME.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Run report by default instead of showing saved output

In Cognos Analytics we often encounter the situation where there is a saved output for a report that gets displayed instead of runnning the report. Users who are not savvy do not realize this is happening and they end up using very old output thin...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable HA/failover functionality at instance level or for groups of databases

DB2 performs failover only at the database level. If a group/set of databases are related, e.g. used for the same application, those databases should ideally failover together, but under the current design, those failovers have to be done individu...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Change job submit time to include milliseconds for precision.

Job submit time to include milliseconds for precision. Instead of HH:MM:SS, make it like 12:29:05.1234. This will enable this column to be used as a unique identifier when generating data in an incremental fashion. We are extracting the RTM data a...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 4 Not under consideration

Add the ability to control db2sqljcustomize behavior on untyped host variables and prevent silent data type conversion

We modernize a banking database application originally written in COBOL by migrating the functionality into a new written Java application. During this application migration we noticed that there is an issue with unexpected/unwanted data type con...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Multiple Dashboard Tabs in TFUI

Common feedback from users is to have the ability to create multiple dashboard tabs. This would help with the layout of dashboards, as a single tab can get very busy
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Lower CPU consumption in CDC for Db2 z/OS (local capture): Modify IIDR CDC for z/OS to reduce its priced general CPU consumption by moving some consistent CPU processing to zIIP

This Request for Enhancement is to modify IIDR CDC for z/OS to reduce its priced general CPU consumption by moving some consistent CPU processing to non-priced zIIP eligible processing. IIDR CDC is a large general CPU consumer in our shop resultin...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 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

Questionnaire and associated parameters

We need to have functionality to associate a ‘Questionnaire’ with a Risk, Control or other object and leverage the results from the ‘questionnaire’ functionality directly into the parameters of these objects (i.e. we are ‘bypassing’ this limitatio...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 4 Future consideration