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Limiting the error mail only to report owner incase of SMTP error in report schedule [CNC-SDS-0335, CNC-SDS-0410]

Problem: - The error mail is sent to all recipients added in schedule When there a report schedule failed due to SMTP error (CNC-SDS-0335, CNC-SDS-0410). Example: - I have scheduled an analysis studio report on daily basis at 9:00 AM. So daily I w...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

The change 'Primary Key Name' is added!

Currently, I know that there is no function to change only the 'Primary Key Name' of Db2. Especially in the case of Primary Key, Unique Index is also created when it is generated! Since the primary key name cannot be duplicated, there is a problem...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

prohibit alter/create tablespace not logged

Performing create/alter tablespace to be not logged might be considered a security problem.A solution for this can be a new ZPARM or a special privilege (in RACF & Db2) that will prohibit anyone from doing so, even SYSADM/DBADM etc. Another "c...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Audit Policy enhancement for Global Temporary Tables

Audit policies are used frequently for us to track for a month the Group IDs read, write, etc of standard Tables of Type P,C,T. We would like be able to use this ability to Audit use of created Global Temporary Tables of Type G as well. This would...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Remove "obvious" deficiency in SSM scheduling when there are more than 10K open session #

When the Open Session number exceeds IBM's baseline of 10K, we can see Symphony SSM scheduling has an obvious "deficiency": Running task # starts to become much lower than the allocated slots to SSM bouncing between even 0 and very low; SSM busy o...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Planned for future release

drill down on map visualization

I want to analyze a single report by looking at the map visualization at multiple levels.I currently don't have a workaround and have no choice but to put multiple maps in the report. This method is very verbose and does not perform well.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Non World writeable folder/files

Currently we have several folder and files used by IBM Streams and created as world writeable (has public write access - anyone can write/change it) /tmp/.com_ibm_tools_attach ( Multiple Items ) - auto created /ibmdev/zsmdhfo/Recon/DailyRecon/.ren...
over 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration

PAW selector widget widget should be enabled to reflect a sorted row dimension of a PAW table

If a PAW table column has been sorted (e.g. ascending by values), it is currently not possible to drag the row dimension to the canvas in order to get a a selector widget with a sorted list of members by values
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW RFE for concurrent LOAD on the same table (vote for 68667)

DB2 LUW does not allow multiple concurrent LOAD on the same range partitioned table or any table. For example, if I have 100 partitions. I can not load all partitions using separate partition files concurrently. [Suggesting load and attaching part...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Unable to lock GA company (Group Journals)

User is still able to pass group journals in GA company although the status has been changed to "READY"
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration