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Scheduled Job Step Report Location

When clicking on a scheduled job > properties, you get to the job steps. You can edit the prompts and schedule information here. In the classic view, you could also see the URL for the report that was being scheduled, in the new view you can no...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to execute more than one ALTER TABLESPACE statement at a time on Statement Execution Prompt screen

If we want to alter a series of tablespaces in a database, for example to move them to another bufferpool, change the Close Rule, compress them, or set them to LOGGED/NOT LOGGED, in Db2 Administration Tool we have to set up and execute the ALTER T...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhance MDE to do Auto Term Assignment for BI Reports

Companies are looking for an Inventory of BI Reports - but they want their business users to be able to search for those reports by using business terms - not coulmn names. They want their users to go into a Catalog and seach for all BI Reports th...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

PAW Upgrade - automate PAW Content upgrade

Each time PAW is upgraded, the content is not upgraded and there is no automated way for a PAW administrator to do it. This seems strange forcing someone to open and save the object to have it upgraded. In some cases, users aren’t allowed to save ...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Online index rebuild

We need command tool in Informix >>-ALTER INDEX--index--REBUILD------------>< | | '-ONLINE-' working like: REBUILD INDEX online utility in DB2 or ALTER INDEX index REBUILD ONLINE in Oracle or REINDEX [INDEX|TABLE] in PostgreSQL
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Show data type for data item in GUI

There are differences between 1) drag&drop a dataitem to the canvas in design mode in reporting or drag&drop a data item to the query in query editor and 2) manually create calculated data item in the query editor. In the first case the da...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Allow for LISTDEF Processing and Template when specifying FROMCOPYDDN on an UNLOAD

Details: 1) Site has multiple tablespaces that use a consistent naming scheme for image copies.2) Manual does not mention use of "template-name" in the FROMCOPYDDN line of the "source-spec" section of the "UNLOAD" page.3) Receive following error w...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

LOCK YES should imply QUISECE YES

Because HPU is not an application program and not a 'true Utility', it does not check all instances of other Utilities for incompatibility. Users will run HPU and other Utilities will that try to start may not see that HPU is running and there cou...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Acceleration of queries that have masked columns referenced in the outermost SELECT

If a column is masked and referenced in the SELECT clause, the queries is no longer a candidate for acceleration. " Outermost SELECT statement must not reference masked columns" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/daafz/7.5?topic=accelerator-supported-que...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Alignment format of Reports download from Controller

When downloading some standard reports (Eg. Company>Reports>Journals, Group>Reports>Journals, Maintain>Account Structure>Reports, etc.) in excel format from Controller, the alignment of the columns are incorrect. The headers shif...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration