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Trigger an alert mechanism whenever a DML transaction is captured in between 2 DDL transactions on the same table

If we run a DDL-DML-DDL scenario and update the metadata of the table using dmreaddtable command and resume mirroring, the data is getting mapped incorrectly. This has been observed where the datatypes are similar and CDC starts capturing data wit...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

onbar should be able to restore logs from primary AND HDR RO SECONDARY

... to prevent full backup after HDR primary/secondary switch ! At the moment (Version 12.10.xC14) cold restore after HDR primary/secondary switch is only working if:- both nodes have the same DBSERVERNAME/INFORMIXSERVER set because the namespace ...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Export XGBOOST models as PMML

XGboost models are becoming very popular and it's odd that it can't be exported as pmml like most of Modeler models
almost 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Audit log for changes to Journal Types and Closing Versions

Currently there is no audit tracking for any changes for Journal types and Closing versions. If there is any changes to these structures, it changes the data reflected in the reports. Without any audit log, Users won't be able to track the changes...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Allow the alteration to another bufferpool (with the same page size) for a specific partition.

When deciding on which bufferpool to place a tablespace in, I have found that different partitions have different requirements. when the "hotspot" of a table (that would benefit by being in a larger bufferpool) is at the end, putting the last part...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

QMF for Websphere - cache passwords

In our organization we have different sets of credentials for each of our Db2 for z/OS systems We need to write Procs that will pull data from several Db2 for z/OS Systems. This requires use to use the CONNECT TO command, but this calls for loggin...
over 5 years ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Override output email addresses

Ability to override the recipient email address (not sender as I know you can already do this).
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use trusted logging with db2audit to protect audit data from instance users and root

On Aix there is a trusted logging which can be used by syslog and AIX auditing. It would be nice if db2 can use this as well to store its audit data. At the moment it is written to Audit Data Path. It would be nice if this can be a character mode ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Upload/ drop down feature for pictures (screenshots) in RTF textfields to be shown in reports.

Hello, We use the audit module, in order to document findings we would like to add pictures, tables or other more visible graphs for a reader. These findings shall be reported through "Cognos" and visualized in a standard "audit report". Therefore...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

PAW - Visible servers

Visible servers to users should be only those, where each user has access to.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration