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Avoid ending with an abend for utilities with AUX YES when TEMPLATE goes to TAPE with STACK YES.

This would help to reduce the number of dump and "wrong" or "bad" opinion about Db2 z/OS to our customers. It would also help us to reduce the number of incidents.
3 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve SQL0293N when creating database on 4K sector size disk

On CREATE DATABASE db2 reports a very generic error message SQL0293N when there is a write access to a 4K sector size disk. Instead should do a check when creating containers e.g. read 512 bytes, if this does not work, read 4K block. If 4K block c...
3 months ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Future consideration

An option to select all values on the Multi Valued enumerated fields

In the task view many fields can be the enumerated fields with different dropdown values: Value AValue BValue C...Value Z Instead of selecting the values one by one, the option to select all is preferable. The select option is available in the Cog...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Microsoft Fabric Data Server Connection

Any plans on supporting a Data Server Connection to Microsoft Fabric ?
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Send count(distinct ... for ...) to database when DB2_COUNT_DISTINCT_SCALAG (DB2 11.5.5) is active (Cognos 11.1.7)

We have thousands of complex reports with expressions like that: "count(distinct ... for ...)". Cognos (DQM) uses a workaround to push expressions like that to the database (row_number+count). This workaround works only in simple cases but not in ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Relative time reports different than dashboard

If you create a report with Relative time QTD Grouped and YTD Grouped on it, they will show as individual columns on a crosstab. If you try and add both to dashboard, they just nest and don't show the correct results. You can put one or the other ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Update Drill-Through Definitions Parameters Window to be more user friendly

It would be very helpful to update the Drill-Through definitions Parameters window to be more user friendly if it were possibly to do things such as changing every "Method" simultaneously to "Pass Parameter Value" or another option. Many times, es...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow an optional "Callback URL" in "Add Document" Discovery API request

We, frequently, write services to poll Discovery for a document's status after we POST a document for ingestion. If, within the request body, we could include a callback URL for Discovery to asynchronously POST a completion message to, we could cu...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

HADR: Enable ROS for all LOBs

At a customer site we tried to use read on standby for reporting. That way we hoped to be able to redirect the load which is caused by reporting away from the operational DB and machine. Test failed because of some LOB-columns which couldn't be al...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Extend Schema Registry support to non-Kafka sources

CP4D support for the use of a Schema Registry is currently limited to Kafka data sources (ref: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x?topic=catalogs-apache-kafka-connection). However, Schema Registries represent a valuable method ens...
9 months ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration