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11.1 visualization like stacked column charts needs format enhancements

For pixel perfect reporting visualizations needs to give a compliant look on a report page (PDF or HTML) in specific if multiple visualizations are used on the same page. The current options for formatting the visualizations are still too few. In ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Support for "every" in the "alter table add partition" to add multiple partitions

The "create table" statement supports this syntax to create a table with multiple partitions: CREATE TABLE DOCUMENTS ( ID INTEGER, CONTENTS VARCHAR(10)) PARTITION BY RANGE (ID)(STARTING 1 ENDING 1000 EVERY 100) This will create a table with 10 par...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

Add new STATUS codes to SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE to reflect different states of the tablespace

For the person who wants to identify the tablespaces that are in advisory reorg-pending status to collectively identify those tables and include them collectively in a reorganization job.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Enhancement to Cognos HTS Notification delete hotfix for Version 10.2.2

The hotfix that was provided for deleting the HTS notifications from the database does have a limitation where we are not able to select a day and time for scheduling the deletes. This needs the scheduling ability with a day and time. E.g. Every S...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance DB2 profile history tables for DataSharing subsystems - column STATUS

DB2 profile and attributes tables have related history tables, SYSIBM.DSN_PROFILE_HISTORY and SYSIBM.DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES_HISTORY. These history tables contain information regarding enabled profiles and attributes that were processed by a -START...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

When AHA-RFE is implemented -> the APAR and/or KC -> include reference to AHA-RFE nbr

When an AHA -RFE is implemented and the knowledge center (KC) is updated AND/OR the APAR is updated/created then please consider putting a reference in the documentation pointing back to the AHA-RFE number! There may be pros and cons to including ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow the DECLARE-part of a cursor in EXPLAIN

Over the years options you can use in a cursor were enhanced more and more, but you still can only explain the SELECT-clause of the cursor. But sometimes access path are considerably different, if you use a rowset cursor.
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Insert Subtotals in PAW like in Pivot Table

It would be very helpful if we can create a subtotal in PAW when we have multiple row dimensions. Please see attached Excel book for example. Someone mentioned about this idea in 2018 (see post "Show sub totals in PAX and PAW similar to Pivot tabl...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Log out screen for SSO implementation

IBM OpenPages ver. 9.0.0. has default session log out page with available User ID and Password fields (see picture no 1). This is ok however for implementations using SSO standard security requirement forbid such setting as a potential vulnerabili...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Regarding modification of dbos.log output when SPU hangs

We have confirmed that the following message is output to dbos.log when the DB service becomes unavailable due to SPU hang-up. *dbos.log Info: _forward_spu_util. Unable to send to dispatch: SPU_MSG_UTILIZATION msg Since this issue has a sig...
about 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration