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Provide incremental progress messages through a DB2 group restart

During a recent DR activity our Db2 had issues during group recovery and it was challenging to determine at what point Db2 had gone as far as it could before requiring the other member to be restarted to resolve any locks RC00C200EB . The MSTR log...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add ALTER COLUMN options to modify numeric column length and allow rename column names for ((bi)temporal) column organized tables

Db2’s capabilities to perform schema changes on any form of ((bi)temporal) column organized tables lacks behind it’s row organized counterparts. This prevents effective database schema evolution and therefore limits the use of column organized tab...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Summary - detailed visualization in the visualization map

Summary - detailed visualization in the visualization map
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

produce warning message when local bufferpool reaches DM Threshold

Produce an alert message when local bufferpool reaches DM threshold.
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Primary Authid etc. in Plan_Table

Add a column where the userid, jobname and the like can be storred. This column should be NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT USER and accordingly populated by explain.
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow ALTER TABLE ... ROTATE for ARCHIVE TABLES (Type 'R')

We have archive tables to retain old data for up to 8 years using transparent archiving. When we try and Rotate these tables we get SQLCODE -20525: ALTER TABLE DBO.SECURITYLOG_$ARC ROTATE PARTITION FIRST TO LAST ENDING AT ('2020-11-30-23.59.59...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improved Db2 backup thread (db2bm and db2med) binding/distribution on NUMA systems

On a large NUMA systems with a very fast storage and a fast backup target memory affinity might affect backup time as well as the overall system performance during the activity. Currently, with the Db2's automatic thread NUMA binding (DB2_RESOURCE...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

Enable 'db2move' to change definitions during COPY SCHEMA

Using a list of schemas with db2move COPY schema function allows to copy a database content including function and procedure definitions from one database to another,And in the default mode "DDL_AND_LOAD", it copies definitions and loads data usin...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to sort on Subtotals and Totals

Dynamic Sorting on Subtotals and Totals
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Checkbox field type & assoc. formula in Salesforce need to be able to be visible in Cognos Analytics with a direct connection

We have made a direct connection from Cognos Analytics to Salesforce.com. We are able to see all Salesforce fields in Cognos with the exception of 2 crucial ones that make the connection useless without them. The one field is called NDA_C and is a...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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