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Favor BID index against TBSCAN for MDC tables

Ref: case TS000043776 2 DMLs working on different dimensions on MDC can lead to deadlock when this should not happen.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Fed Server Kerberos support for Greenplum

Morgan Stanley would like to have a Greenplum driver for Federation server. Eventually they would like to have Kerberos supported for authentication to the Greenplum Server
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

encode Active report lists and xtabs in JSON, not XML

currently the lists and crosstabs in an active report have thier supporting data encodeed in XML. This makes the resulting MHT file very large. All other visualzations have thier data encoded in JSON, which results in much smaller MHTs.Please cons...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Timestamp/Time values in CDC (Source: DB2 / Target Kafka)

In our shop we've got a history-concept for our db2-data, using valid-from and valid-until timestamps. a lot of this timestamps contains time-values 24:00, for ex. '9999-12-31-24.00.00.000000 (or also other timestamp with time 24:00, eg 'jjjj-mm-d...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Record all failures into RUNREPORTS including when password expires

Currently - the report failure will only get logged into the RUNREPORTS table if the report server had received the request. If there was a failure beforehand, for example if the password had expired, you will not see the failure in the RUNREPORTS...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of security managament in Datastage

Currently, Datastage is offering different roles: DataStage Operator, DataStage Super Operator, ...(full list available here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSZJPZ_11.5.0/com.ibm.swg.im.iis.found.admin.common.doc/topics/c_wdisad_WebSp...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Select multiple KCOP user exits per subscription. CDC for Kafka

Currently, CDC for Kafka allow only 1 KCOP user exit to be select per 1 subscription. Customer would like to select multiple KCOP on the same subscription such as; Arvo live audit exit with Source and Target topic mapping exit.
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Enhance CLPPlus to be more equivalent to CLP in terms of functionality

Would like to see CLPPlus enhanced to the equivalent of CLP for at least the following capabilities: - full create database support, including remote client support - update for DB and DBM configuration - CLP equivalency in terms of XSR maintenanc...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Customization of tooltips to show datapoint images, description, sales and other visualizations like top 5 products for that datapoint in Tooltip

Tooltip actions like whenever you mouse hover on any viz datapoint should show other tabs/vizs means give ability to manually edit tooltip text/data what to show or not. for example we have a chart with all product category sales and whenever you ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Expand RETPD in template to 5 digits

RETPD parm in the template should allow 5 digits with a value up to 93000
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration