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Admin Tool - MIG: do not allocate COL DD dataset for ADB2GEN in generate job.

When generating MIG DATA for objects in BATCH the program ADB28M allocates a COL DD dataset which is used in the generated unload JCL. This causes a security violation for unloads that are destined to run in production. Example: 1. In Panel ADB2...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Regularly synchronization between datastore and the active (started) Management Consoles

During the start of Management Console the available definitions out of the datastore are selected. But if there is another user in an active Management Console that runs with same datastore who adds new or changes existing definitions those will ...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Update RLF to Handle Secondar Auth ID or Roles & Trusted Context

Would like to avoid coding specific userid's in RLF tables. I need a way to permit the DBA's to run certain plans/packages/collections that is not as restrictive as Developers. See PMR. My DBA"s belong to a group in RACF that I would like to use. ...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance db2exfmt

Please enhance db2exfmt to support querytag and queryno so that db2exfmt can format a previous explain when the timestamp of the explain is not known (and -w -1 will not work since it's not the last explain). This would allow scripting of multiple...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Add Informix Sample Datasources for Cognos 11 Samples

Cognos Analytics / 11 currently only provides sample data for SQLServer, DB2 and Oracle. Since the ready-to-run version of CA runs its Content Store in an Informix Database it would be useful to be able to run the samples in it as well.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[GUI][Usability] - checked consumer admin users on consumer properties

On the consumer properties view (WEBGUI), there is no way to list the checked user for this consumer only or make the checked user in the beginning. It is so hard to look through over 4000 user lists to get Consumer Admin, Consumer User, etc.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

Refocus Prompt Page to Selected Prompt control after Page Reloads

When you click on a reprompt button on a prompt page with multiple prompts, the user is taken back to the first prompt on the page.This behavior is also seen with search and select prompts. Can the product behavior be modified to retain the focus ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

For drop downs: Dependent values should be automatically removed when person unticks the related drop-down value form another field

This would benefit all the users who are using multiselect drop-down lists, which include additional dependent fields. This would significantly improve the data quality. This is especially needed for the financial fields, however useful for other ...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Functionality already exists

Add an internal TERM UTIL command for Autonomic Runstats in case

Customer would like that DB2 code adds an 'internal' TERM UTIL commandwhen Autonomic Runbstats fails. This because DB2 automatically starts the Autonomic Rustats and automatically it should reset the satus in case of failure.
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve Various Components of the Current Scheduler Adlgorithm

Currently, though the Scheduler supports threads, the processing is not a thread per bucket, but rather a threads that are used on a per bucket basis and buckets are still handled serially, which has led us to Host Match times around 400 seconds. ...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 4 Not under consideration