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Print all company journals for a group, including subgroups

Possible to print a report of company journals for a specific group including all subgroups and companies below.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Please provide a bresources option where we can find the default reservation unit per defined resource: job, task, host

Currently, it's not strait forward for a user to be able to see what the default reservation units are for things like memory, swap, license resources, etc. It would be nice if there were a bresources option to show the default allocation unit's f...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

externalize generic runstats information for XML columns in SYSCAT.COLUMNS

Currently RUNSTATS does not store generic statistical results for XML columns in SYSCAT.COLUMNS - as it does for other data types -, like numnulls etc.This information in SYSCAT.COLUMNS is used for administrative, automated tasks worldwide, but ca...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Future consideration

Filters on RDS With Composite Keys

Filtering on a large RDS is cumbersome especially when you want to narrow down a specific combination of a code and two or more composite keys. Please add an option to filter on the "Key" (code|composite key 1|composite key 2)
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data System 1 Future consideration

Avoid potential data loss in time intervals containing PIT ranges

If you want to create REDO SQL for a time interval, and there is a PIT range somewhere in this interval, Log Analysis Tool (LAT) will print this informational message ""ALAA156I: LOG RECS BYPASSED DUE TO PIT RECOVERY". The job will end with "RC=00...
3 months ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Db2 exporter

Kindly help build Db2 native and/or Sql based exporter. This exporter should be developed in such a way that It should be non-intrusive & no performance impact to the databases which are being monitored, Similar to nosql db metrics exporter av...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Azure Synapse Connector

A dedicated connector stage for Azure Synapse will be helpful for organization with multi-cloud presence. Current version of Cloud Pak doesn't have this feature.
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 2 Future consideration

Run a TI process upon open or close of PAW book.

We currently store user settings for a PAW book in a cube which is subsequently used to manage subsets and other elements in the book. Basically, to create guided user experiences. It would be very useful to have the ability to run a TI process up...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Enhance MON_GET_TRANSACTION_LOG to return Transaction Log number of OLDEST_TX_LSN and the Transaction log number of the minbuflsn recovery information returned by db2pd -dirtypages

Enhance MON_GET_TRANSACTION_LOG to return Transaction Log number of OLDEST_TX_LSN and the Transaction log number of the minbuflsn recovery information returned by db2pd -dirtypages. For example when trying to identify the reason for the First Acti...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Permanent page display setting in Admin foundation

Within the Admin foundation, there is a setting that allows user to see 10 objects per page by default. Although it is possible to change this setting to show more items, such as 50 objects per page, this preference resets after logging out. We wo...
5 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Future consideration