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DB2 Recovery Expert access Backup and Logs directly over Vendor Library

Currently when doing Reports with the DB2 Recovery Expert, access to Backup and Logfiles over the Vendor Library (in our Case Commvault) is done on the managed Database itself. This is causing a high Performance impact on the System (Disk, Cpu and...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1

Automate restart of IIDR tasks when RRS terminates

We had issues with RRS recently which were solved via a maintenance cycle. During those issues, our IIDR Capture and Apply tasks failed and required manual restart. We have the option TERM=N enabled yet the Capture/Apply tasks were not restarted w...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Is a defect

Run report by default instead of showing saved output

In Cognos Analytics we often encounter the situation where there is a saved output for a report that gets displayed instead of runnning the report. Users who are not savvy do not realize this is happening and they end up using very old output thin...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Expand DB2 Profile Wildcard Support to Client Property Parameters

We need DB2 Profile table wildcard support to extend to the client property parameters: CLIENT_APPLNAME, CLIENT_USERID and CLIENT_WRKSTNNAME.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

For Modify Utility, enhance to allow selecting SYSCOPY rows by TYPE (full, incremental) and DSN pattern (DBP.DB2.ICWKY*), Modify should also delete rows where there are no media.

Need to delete rows for Incremental ICs which are kept 14 days while the Fulls are 30 days. Can't do that using the current product.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable HA/failover functionality at instance level or for groups of databases

DB2 performs failover only at the database level. If a group/set of databases are related, e.g. used for the same application, those databases should ideally failover together, but under the current design, those failovers have to be done individu...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

License - users vs viewer

Our company is reviewing our existing license allocation and currently when I go into the License section within Cognos Analytics - it shows that whenever a new user is created and logs into the environment, it is flagged as an analytics users not...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Submitted

Ability to hide individual PAW tabs

We regularly build PAW tabs that are accessed through Action Buttons for purposes of a special form entry, editing assumptions, administrative model control, etc. However, when a user accesses the PAW book we don't necessarily want these tabs show...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Lower CPU consumption in CDC for Db2 z/OS (local capture): Modify IIDR CDC for z/OS to reduce its priced general CPU consumption by moving some consistent CPU processing to zIIP

This Request for Enhancement is to modify IIDR CDC for z/OS to reduce its priced general CPU consumption by moving some consistent CPU processing to non-priced zIIP eligible processing. IIDR CDC is a large general CPU consumer in our shop resultin...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Capture data source connection in Audit DB

Capture into audit database the connection selected when running report. It is especially useful when having data sources with multiple connections defined. Connections might correspond to different instances of data source and the users are selec...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration