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Reactivate change package funtionality using the properties

Cognos analytics does not offer the option to change a package using just the properties windows (Package is shown, but no option to change the package). This option was available in Cognos 10.X and is also available by using the legacy UI.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Enhance Filters to support empty and not empty

It would be useful for User fields and Date fields to support the empty and not empty options on filter in the UI. This could also apply to other fields as well. There are a lot of times when filtering you want to be able to search not on a specif...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 6 Delivered

DB2 LUW: Intra-tablespace parallelism

Db2 V9.7 FP2: Intra-tablespace parallelism can reduce elapsed time for backups Starting in Version 9.7 Fix Pack 2, intra-tablespace parallelism was introduced and can be used during backups other than delta and incremental backups. Intra-tablespac...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Delivered

PAW Action Button Process Search Capability

When using Action button in PAW to run a process there is no existing way to search for it. We have to scroll down and select it manually. It would be really helpful if we can get a feature to search the process. I'm attaching sample screenshot fo...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Avoid Single point of failure for Db2's critical files

If the critical files of Db2 damage, e.g. by erroneously deletion, file system corruption Db2 will no longer be available (#usable). Since some of the critical files are permanently updated a restore of the critical files does solve the problem. A...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Delivered

Update PDF manuals for v14.10.<latest> and keep in sync

The PDF manuals have not been updated since v12.10.FC7!
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

Provide DROP ... IF EXISTS functionality

Submitted on behalf of Gregor Hack (ghack@zeb.de). Customer would like to see DROP ... IF EXISTS functionality supported, similar to the way it is currently supported by SQL Server, MySQL, and Postgres.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 2 Delivered

Searching on Nulls

We would like to have the ability on all of the filtered list views when using the Advanced Filter, to be able to search on fields that contain a null value in the DB. In addition we'd like to be able to filter on all values that are Not Null. Thi...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Delivered

Controller Web - Freeze Panes in Free Forms

In Controller Classic you have the possibility to select ”Fixed scroll area” and “Viewable area” defined in the Layout Options in Controller Classic.”. This or similar functionality is needed to make Controller Web practical for the end user. As i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Delivered

Option to override LOAD utility maintaining MAXASSIGNEDVAL for identity columns in Db2 V12

Our existing process to move data from one region to another using the LOAD utility stopped working on tables with generated by default as identity key column after we upgraded to Db2 12. The new LOAD enhancement to maintain MAXASSIGNEDVAL is caus...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 5 Delivered