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Availability of DROP SYSTEM PERIOD for System temporal tables.

When a table is defined as a system temporal and the changes need to be reverted for any specific reason - A drop of system period would be needed. This functionality is available in Db2 LUW. Without this, the table has to be dropped and recreated.
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

MCI status request to handle FLI buffer over flow.

If FLI buffer is full , MCI status request should reply as MCI is down.
3 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Remove the limit on the number of secondary IDs

The documentation states: If RACF is active and the “list of groups” option is active, the routine sets the list of Db2 secondary IDs to the list of group names to which the RACF user ID is connected. The maximum number of groups is 1012. Since RA...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Default view in Workspace

Currently there is no option to create a view in Workbenck without data as it is available in Architect. If you try to create a new in Workbench it consumes a lot memory. here is link to the ticket https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500Ke000002f...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Report References and Bursting

Report references allow you to create booklet like reports containing other reports. Report references are awesome! With very little effort you can combine reports. And there is no maintenance, changes in the reference report are automatic in the ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Provide a documented and supported procedure to generate ddl (db2look as SP - like db2lk_generate_ddl)

db2lk_generate_ddl is a stored procedure that provides functionality to generate DDL via SQL (similar to db2look which is a tool as db2llok cannot be executed througha SQL client tool. This function already exists but is not documented and I am no...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Not under consideration

Changing the source of a dataset

As a data analyst I want to be able to change the source of a dataset. This is necessary when it has been moved or the location name has been changed. We know where the source is, but there's no way we can change the source.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Enable classic reorg with "allow write access"

Many customers want to REORG their tables quickly and efficiently. The classic REORG is by far the fastest option but puts the table in read only mode. Inplace reorg allows write access but is much slower and not suitable for tables that have a hi...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 3 Future consideration

Allow developers to set the column width for Cube views in PAW and disregard members as the context.

The general issue can be seen at this link https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?GroupId=3067&MessageKey=34afee39-b281-43ab-93f0-83b1d9e81797&CommunityKey=8fde0600-e22...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Multiple IMS connection support by DVM

Currently, one DVM server can connect to single IMSsubsystem only. Therefore, when multiple IMS subsystems exist in 1 LPAR, we must configure multiple DVM servers for each IMS subsystem to access data in all IMS subsystems.If DVM can support conne...
4 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Under review