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Add Ability to Include Capability Settings in Content Export

Current there is no way to export the Capabilities (secured functions/features) configurations under the Security tab in Cognos Administration. Although it is possible to export custom groups/roles using the standard content export, it is not curr...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Db2 should request logs in both Log Archive Method

When performing a roll forward, and the LOGARCHMETH1 is configured to a external mechanism like Netbackup, and LOGARCHMETH2 is a local disk, Db2 will ask the first method and wait for the log, even if it takes too long for retrieval. In this case,...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Compliance with SM1, SM2, SM3 and SM4 encryption

Chinese legal requirements for Planning Analytics 2.0.9.1, and this is the encryption requirement: The National Cryptographic Algorithm is a series of algorithms formulated by the National Cryptographic Bureau. Including symmetric encryption algor...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

2-Phase commit for JDBC driver to Postgres

We use a replication solution which utilizes DB2 LUW Federation as a link between DB2 z/OS (source database) and Postgres (target database). So the picture is as follows: SQL Replication 11.4 -Db2 z/OS 12 on mainframe, -Db2 LUW Federation 11.5.8, ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 1 Needs more information

Increase medium performance to upload data via FastMap

The medium performance to upload data via FastMap is unacceptable by the client. The uploading time of 3 records per second must be reduced to 6 records per second. We are referring to the simple upload, with just the standard FastMap checks, with...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Future consideration

If ADMIN_UTL_SCHED is used for imagecopies it should put the triggering jobname/CorrID into SYSIBM.SYSCOPY

If ADMIN_UTL_SCHED is used do to image copies it writes the name of the wlm-addressspace to the jobname columne of SYSIBM.SYSCOPY. We like to see the name of the triggering job/CorrID there, because we need this information. An alternative would b...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason

"LSF does not support reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason (about license)." Let me provide a portion of the bsub statement from our case to exemplify the customer's dilemma. bsub -R "rusage[mem=3000.00:duration=1m,md_r...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

GOC - ADB2W1 should have ability to view the WSL. Has edit but if change is inadvertently made, you need to remember to Cancel

There should be a way to just view the WSL like the Edit. View would display the information protected from update.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow BIND EXPLAIN(ONLY) use virtual indexes

It would be very helpful if Db2 allowed (optionally) to use virtual indexes when BIND with EXPLAIN(ONLY) is performed. This can be an additional BIND parameter on whether or not use virtual indexes. This option will eliminate/reduce a need in thir...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Target to Google BigQuery

Customers are planning to deploy the Data Science Sandbox, Analytic platform on Google Cloud Platform, hence BigQuery as analytic engine. But they are facing challenges to replicate data from on premises database, including DB2, Oracle, .... to ...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration