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Allow dropping of distributions on specific columns; today it is only possible to drop all distributions on a table

We have a large system of many Tbs and as a legacy of Art Kagel's "dostats" we have distributions on all columns of all tables. These distributions are not needed and we have to spend considerable database resources keeping these up to date. We'd ...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

External user drop-down menu has Users from Head mandator

Workaround was to remove investigate and inherit sub from internal tech users but it still displays for business users. Critical for go live
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Calculate classification probabilities for more than two classes

In SPSS Statistics and in open source languages (e.g. R), when you use a classification algorithm to classify more than two groups (e.g. 4 groups), the probabilities are provided for each class (not just the predicted class). This is important bec...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Future consideration

Support Custom URL for documents from Cognos for Office

In Cognos 10.2.2 it was possible to write a custom URL for documents uploaded by Cognos for Office.Here we had a search path and a default action URL.With the combination of action URL (the ID has to be replaced by the search path) we always had t...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remotely disconnect

We have a number of users for SPSS. We use the concurrent license that works with the Sentinel License Manager (SLM). For us, it would be interesting to have the possibility to remotely disconnect a user and withdraw the license.
almost 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

z/OS Infosphere Optim - Data Masking - GDPR - New LUA function

The need is about the data masking and the GDPR constraints. Our développers used the LUA capabilities of z/OS Optim. The needs are convert in a bijective way a numeric chain in a other numeric chain if we run repeatedly a convert with the same ch...
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 3 Not under consideration

Enhance the message "table XXXX not found" during running load Utility.

We actually want DB2 load utilities to display consistent error messages that are easy to find. It should definitely be an ‘E’rror, not a ‘W’arning or ‘I’nformational message’, but it should also contains something like ‘UNSCCESSFUL’, or ‘ERROR’, ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

z/OS Infosphere Optim - Data Migration : add a DELETE DLI function

Our SI is mixed DLI and DB2. Therefore, our OPTIM ADS use DLI database and DB2 tables. Before we refresh data, we delete DLI et DB2 data in cohérence. The deletes are only partial [DLI Bases and DB2 tables are not emptied] Optim offer a standard D...
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 2 Future consideration

Provide option to create VCD files compatible with Windows or Unix, Linux paths.

Please provide option in Transformer that specifies the VDC file to be created with specific Windows or Unix\Linux paths depending on the intended target platform for the Powercube, or both in a mixed platform environment.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reorg online with a mapping table

It will be very helpful to have a new reorg online with a mapping table like on DB2 z/OS with the same performance level.
over 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration