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MER - enable checking line length (number of characters in one line) in fields with free input

In the fields in message in MER, which are free input during entry, there is no check of line length or number of lines. You can write unlimited in one line. There is no entry like in MERVA. Only purely structured fields, i.e. those with options A...
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Functionality already exists

FTM for Swift- message printing layout

Adjustment of the message printout to be more similar to Merva's printout, the data is quite unreadable because the field descriptions and the field content are not separated, the problems are bigger with large messages that have a lot of fields. ...
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Not under consideration

SQLCODE -413: Add an ID of Column/Host-Variable

Currently SQLCODE -413 looks like this: DSNT408I SQLCODE = -413, ERROR: OVERFLOW OR UNDERFLOW OCCURRED DURING NUMERIC DATA TYPE CONVERSIONDSNT418I SQLSTATE = 22003 SQLSTATE RETURN CODE DSNT415I SQLERRP = DSNTZEXE SQL PROCEDURE DETECTING ERROR This...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow more than 50 MB for UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH sort operations

UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH operations that do not use indices for sort are restricted to 50 MB before the system will use temporary space. This limit has remained unchanged for a long time and could be increased quite a lot on a modern system. ...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Applications and Plans: Add a websheet to a task without requiring a PAW book.

Ability to assign individual websheet as an asset to a task that’s not part of of a Book. Currently only able to assign a websheet to a task as an asset if it is part of a PAW Book. Enhancement required to add websheet that isn’t part of a PAW Book.
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Add package name to SQL0552N msg

When db2exfmt is used from remote clients with different db2levels than the db2 server, than binding of packages with this level is needed. If the users got BIND rights granted, this is done impliziely without problems. However if users don't have...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Grid View functionality

Having a Grid View that displays quite a few fields is not an issue on a large screen (see attached screenshot 01_large screen.png). But on a small (laptop) screen you are not able to see all columns anymore (see attached screenshot 02_small scree...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Catalogs should have an alternative screen for showing / presenting Data Assets in a hierarchical way

Client is requesting a more contextual way, so to speak, of showing the Data Assets in the catalogs. The way the Data Assets are presented nowadays is considered loose. They should belong to a certain context. At the very least, there should be a ...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Make Report Modified Date - Actual Date Report Changed

The Report Modified date now changes randomly and does not reflect the date the report was actually changed by a user - this make visually auditing for report changes impossible
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Supply RACF Exit IRREVX01 to fail commands against Db2 classes that don't have the proper syntax.

As encountered in Case TS013914362, invalid profiles would not be created that could leave unused records in the RACF data base and also confuse Db2 when RACF notifies Db2 to refresh the cached profiles. All Db2 for z/OS users utilizing RACF could...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration