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Add the new IF EXIST functionality to db2look

The new syntax IF EXISTS for CREATE and DROP TABLES (see https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.aha.io/ideas/DB24LUW-I-259) should also be generated by db2look on demand. This would help and simplify migration scenarios with db2look. This should also be av...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Improve documentation on subscription (vs schedule) feature

Existing documentation on the subscription feature describes how to enable subscriptions, but doesn't clearly explain how it works or how it is different from schedules. I learned the following from opening a support ticket. When asked if IBM coul...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove EACCES errors when restoring into different instance on same machine

When restoring a database without automatic storage with redirected restore on a machine where the former tablespace paths exist (but are owned by another UID) the redirected restore generates multiple "EACCES (13) PERMISSION DENIED ERRORS" within...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

When Cognos Analytics queries Snowflake (Database Vendor: https://snowflake.com), the data returned when a TIME datatype is used in the query should be exactly the same as the data stored at rest within a given table on Snowflake, without any conversion based on the difference in hours between UTC and how time is configured on the Operating System where the dispatcher is installed.

This would benefit any IBM Cognos customer who is using Snowflake as a data source and expecting data to not be modified in flight regardless of where the Cognos dispatchers are located in the World's 24 regional time zones.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Previous/Next Record Function

Hi I've seen other BI Tools use their own Previous Function to access Previous records. Not looking at the Running-count or running-diff Functions as those are for Metrics As of SQL 2012, MS has introduced Lag and Lead Functions in SQL
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add SYSDISC DSNTIAUL format to REORG utility

Sometimes there's a need to repopulate DB2 tables concatenating outputs from REORG SYSDISC and DSNTIAUL in a single LOAD SYSREC file. So the idea is to have a parameter like REORG ... SYSDISC FORMAT INTERNAL|DSNTIAUL. Basically the difference betw...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Have new authority for REFRESH of MQT that does not require high privilege levels

We historically have an application batch userid that has DBADM authority. We are limiting all access to this ID to the minimally required authority it requires such as load, imagecopy and runstats at the DB level. When we started converting our t...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

The function LENGTH () also for BLOBs / CLOBs

Unfortunately, there is no SQL statement that returns the size of the blob. You have to use an external program to get such information. I wish the sql function length() worked for BLOBs/CLOBs.
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration

Add option to CC and BCC for bursted reports

When bursting a report to an email address the client would like the option to also specify CC and BCC fields instead of all recipients being in the ""To"" field.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Add ability to change the maxURL lenght parameter in IIS config script

The default setting of the Maximum URL length (bytes) is 8192. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.2.0?topic=services-configuring-iis-in-cognos-analytics For some dashboards we need to increase this value to at least 16000 https://www....
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration