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Partial early aggregation (PEA) in a federation system

Extend the Db2 optimizer combined with federation for partial early aggregation (PEA). Push down SQL queries to a federated database to reduce traffic from the remote source significantly.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

Allow column ALIAS in HAVING clause

Just recently while working on a customer we were able to speedup a very slow query by using the recently introduced OLAP functions. The query looks like this: SELECT col1, col2, col3, col4, rank() over (partition by col1, col2 order by col4 desc)...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DB Script to purge entire data set

When DEV is refreshed with PROD data, Clients would not want to expose their confidential data on a Non-PROD environment. To some extent there are purge/anonymization APIs but it is object/resource specific. It would be better to have a DB script ...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add comments/hints to report elements in report author

While developing a report, Funcional requirements, meeting’s annotations and such are documented, but it would much easier and better documented if present in the report’s specification. This resource is also more important if client uses any kind...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Convert PBR tablespace to PBG without an outage

Right now we have situations come up where applications and DBAs have created partition by range (PBR) tables, and there is a need later on to convert these to partition by growth (PBG). Currently there is no way to do this without dropping the ob...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

DB2 LUW Allow Online (Mostly) Index Creation

Hello IBM, Currently whenever we create an index on a table we see significant number of lock timeouts for the applications. We are running a pureScale cluster and not able to create Indexes ONLINE. Pain points: We use DB2 LUW pureScale as a...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 3 Not under consideration

Show "My parameter" Icon in Dashboard

We would like to use a global parameter in a Framework package and use this package in a Dashboard as source. But, when we run a Dashboard, the icon "My Parameters" is hidden. Actually, the users have to go to the home page to change parameter val...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Load Utility: Extension of field selection criterion option by AND conditions

The Db2 for z/OS LOAD utility offers a field selection criterion for the INTO TABLE option via WHEN( ... = ...). Since increasingly complex data structures are used application developers want to specify more complex conditions for selection of to...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

HTML items in Cognos for Office

We want to use HTML-items (Javascript, Integeo, Maps etc) in Cognos for Office. When we import items in Powerpoint our map does not appear.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Db2 Houskeeping of combination of Snapshot Backups and TSM Backups

At the moment Db2 supports housekeeping of backups by DB configuration parameters rec_his_retent and num_db_backups. These parameters are used by the customer for years for Db2 TSM backups. Both parameters are set to a value of 8 - ensuring more t...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

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