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Obtain the query plan of a running query

Many times a DBA is called to check upon a slow process. Most of the times those processes are running a slow query.Sometimes it's hard to know if the query is using the best query plan or not. A DBA can reproduce the query, but it it was prepared...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0

Export/Import from JDBC gateway file location

From JDBC gateway administrative console Selecting file > export The export of the Personal Data Sources has a pre-defined path (on server) that is not changeable and indicates the installation path by default. While the export of Repositories ...

CQM - Enhancing Granularity in SQL Code Monitoring and Detail Collection

Currently, there is a limitation in the MAX_SQLCODE_DETAIL parameter, as it does not allow exemption of a single negative SQL code. This becomes evident in the CQM$SQCM panel, where although a significant number of entries for a specific SQLCODE, ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Applications and Plans: Ability to assign individual users to a Task

Currently PAW Plans and Applications only have the option to assign security groups as Contributors and Approvers, whereas we have the need to have the option to also assign individual users in the same way that individual users can be assigned to...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

LSF job query filter on pending jobs without providing pending reasons

For large LSF clusters, the bjobs command takes significant time to gather the pending reasons (-p, -pei, -pe, -pi) making the query much longer than requesting all jobs. Suggest a new bjobs option to filter on pending jobs without supplying the p...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Pass a parameter from a dashboard to dynamically filter the SQL source in the data module

A parameter (e.g. date parameter) created in a report can be passed to the SQL query in the data module. The SQL query just has to use the notation #sq(prompt(['prompt name]','[prompt data type]'))#) to refer to the parameter. Similar functionalit...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

For Reconciliation reports in Cognos,Please group the party vs counterparty information rather than breaking the Party vs Counterparty relationships into multiple sections

Business Users have reported that they are facing issues with the reconciliation reports breaking the party vs counterparty information.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Needs more information

Enabling the "XLS" option avaialble for reports along with "PDF" and "XLSX".

The user find it more efficient to format the data in XLS format for Cognos Reports.
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Capturing Upload/Download Activities in Cognos 11 Audit Database

We would like to request the ability to capture detailed logs of upload and download activities within the Cognos 11 environment. Specifically, we are interested in tracking when a user uploads or downloads report outputs or files.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

One email to all Assignees and Subscribers

If a workflow stage has multiple Assignees and Subscribers, email is sent out to each user separately restricting the user not know who else received the email. Instead provide a setting where one email can be sent to everyone with all Assignees i...
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Under review