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Rebuild Index for Redirected Recovery based on TARGET environment

A Redirect Recovery was done from one db2 subsystem to another. The jobs all completed successfully, however when the application started to run, they received a 00C90206 - "Inconsistent data" error. It turns out our target environment had two add...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Fall back to previous IC if latest IC needed is unusable

The Db2 RECOVER utility falls back to a previous image copy if it finds a needed image copy unusable. This is also true if a recovery plan in Db2 Recovery Expert uses the Db2 RECOVER utility. However, if Db2 Recovery Expert uses a recovery plan th...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Request for password reset from cognos login screen

Need to raise and enhancement for resetting the password from Cognos login screen itself when ever they need. Can you please let me know the steps to raise enhancement. Business Justification: It should be possible for the user to change password ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Implement pop-up notification for user session inactivity timeouts.

This would be useful for users when they are programing a report and exceed the session inactivity timeout. If a user is spending time programming a report or dashboard and their session times out they will lose their work when the go to save. If ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Parameterized url with Azure OIDC has limitation of 4096 Bytes

Unlike IBM Directory Service (Or some Local Authentication Providers) Azure AZ supports only 4096 Bytes in the request url in its authorization end Point. This is causing issue with existing report with large columns passed to Cognos as query stri...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Load file which can be used in LOAD RESUME YES for REDO records

When generating REDO SQLs for a transaction recovery scenario an option to generate a load file (to be used in LOAD RESUME YES) containing the REDO record will be nice to have where there were a lot of records to apply say millions and the users u...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add additional analysis to Recovery Plan creation to reduce overall Recovery Plan

We are currently testing DB2 Recovery Expert and our analysis is showing that we can have a very large Recovery Plan that includes objects that may not need reeovery. This might be due to the fact that Recovery Expert is analyzing the DB2 Catalog ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Data Source Connections - Set Password Dynamically

Problem / Use Case - In Cognos Data source connections can be created in multiple places. Either of the below cases we need to enter the password manually. Considering knowing the password in Production databases is a Security Risk. So Implement a...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Provide an additional output DD for Recovery Plan messages that cause Plan create failures

We are testing Recovery Expert and as part of our POC one of our batch runs produced an extremely large amount of output in the ARYEXPLN DD (over 139,500 lines). The job ended with a RC=8 and an indication that a Recovery Plan could not be created...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Issue a warning or a report where a table or objects can be included in more than 1 profile

Since an application recovery profiles can cover multiple db2 objects e.g. say 20 tables, the same table can qualify for the object pattern in more than 1 application profile. when in a mass recovery scenario the first application profile will run...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release