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JobScheduler - Option Daylight saving time switch

Dear all, Batchjobs are running with unix time. It would be great to have an option to turn off / on daylight switching time. (connection to unix time is correct, but any export to a human user is expected at the same time per day).
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

Export on Dashboard R7 only available to for author mode

We have a requirement to be able to export data from public facing dashboards. The drill through to report doesn't work because we can't change the default output from HTML to excel or CSV and the default setting on the report isn't used. The R7 e...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

auto-reorg OLR for cleanup of overflows

Auto-reorg should use online window to issue REORG CLEANUP OVERFLOWS (and also trigger a RUNSTATS afterwards).Problem to solve: SQL optimizer thinks overflow accesses are quite expensive and then might to start choosing different access plans that...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to create filters for dashboard

Could we add in the ability to filter for ancestors/"grandparents"? For example, If my structure was SOXSubProcess> SOXRisk> SOXControl could we be able to filter for all Controls which fall under a particular SubProcess?
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Reduce message flooding on system console using Db2 System Profile Monitoring for security profiles when detecting non-secure connections and WARNING_DIAGLEVEL3

This Aha idea is being opened on behalf of Commerzbank (Ute Kleyensteuber). Security profiles are used with System Profile Monitoring filter LOCATION=*, ATTR1=WARNING_ DIAGLEVEL3, ATTR3=1 (TLS required) to discover all incoming non-secure connecti...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Section actuals for BLU

Collecting section actuals and compare it with the SQL compiler estimates using the db2caem tool is quite handy to find cardinality mis-estimates in huge plans.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Performance penalty in LOAD when using large bufferpool

LOAD RESETDICTIONARYONLY and other LOADs take very long, if table resides in large buffer.The limitation also applies to LOAD on row based tables, but bufferpools on BLU systems tend to be much larger.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Data module Lookup reference property for implementing relative time

Lookup reference property in Data Module is currently available only when creating calculations created within a table, but, not when we create calculations that reside outside of tables. We are trying to implement relative time for calculated fie...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Optimized Platform Connections: Full support for all functionality incl. WKC, DV

To support the full AI-Lifecycle like described in the "Ladder to AI", the integration of Governance and Metadata in all steps is key. However, when customers using NPS or Db2, and want to take full advantage from the power of these databases duri...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Granularity for backup

Ideal example of it is 'staging database', which may not be worth backing up. Backing up unnecessary databases is a toll on resources (Network bandwidth, CPU, storage). Having choice of which databases user can backup and at what time may help our...
about 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Functionality already exists