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ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE Allow implicit PACKAGE BIND by the application

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE change to allow an implicit PACKAGE BIND by the application. Currently Db2 marks the PACKAGE (SYSCAT.PACKAGES) as inoperative by marking VALID = 'X' which requires an explicit bind. This causes an outage in a 24x7 environment. S...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DCLGEN ignores hidden columns

We have defined columns with "IMPLICITLY HIDDEN" and want to generate the host variable declarations with the DCLGEN command which is described with"The declarations generator (DCLGEN) produces an SQL DECLARE TABLE statement and a COBOL, PL/I, or ...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

A better Element management approach in Leaves dimension: Hierarchy

Currently when managing ( deleting and rebuilding) Hierarchies, it's fairly common for a C: Element in an Alt Hierarchy to end up inthe Leaves dimensions as an N: element when the hierarchy is made to go away. This causes programmatic problems/err...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Export/ Reimport rules RUX files

While there exists the the ability to load a rule from file iun turbo integrator RuleLoadFromFile(Cube, TextFile); It would be nice to be able to be able to EXPORT a rux/rules file to a text file inthe TI process, this is especially true now we ca...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Include "All" file types as default file types while file selection in Spectrum application Centre (10.2.0.12) - Reference Case TS011445497

Include "All" file types as default file types while file selection in Spectrum application Centre (10.2.0.12) - Reference Case TS011445497
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Not under consideration

Transparent content manager switch

Today when a content manager switch to standby (as failover or when activating manually by admin team), the switch is not transparent towards users. The active sessions are kept but all ongoing report/report view/job exeuctions are failing. We wou...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow stored procedure conflict resolution on receive-only targets for Enterprise Replication

Currently stored procedure conflict resolution is not allowed on a receive-only participant, but when there are multiple sources and one target, even though the target is receive-only, there can be situations where more advanced logic is needed to...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Db2 FCIC should provide option to avoid taking long time with IGD17291I message

Please refer to the existing RFE ID 126885, "FCIC JOB takes long time with msg IGD17291I", opened from z/OS (DFSMS DSS) side, also. The data amount will be extremely increasing in our customer. To minimize data unavailability, they are trying to ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Encryption at tablespace level

Allow to encrypt at the tablespace level. Add the encrypt keyword in the create tablespace command
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

The option that grant "own credentials" to others should be controled by a capability i.e. "Manage own credentials"

Under MyPreferences => Personal => under "Credentials" a user is always able to grant credentials to others, there is not way to deny this feature. For some customer this is a security risk although it does not mean to grant data security cr...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration