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Simplify Management Of Dynamic Cubes

Simplify management of dynamic cubes so that they are easier to set up, administer, and keep running. In particular, make it so that you can publish them with a routing rule, but NOT have to also define them directly on a dispatcher. I'd suggest a...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

db2logscan should be able to read compressed logs

The utility db2logscan, which is now bundled with Db2 is not able to read compressed logs. So with compressed logs we cannot estimate the recommended sync settings for HADR.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Import and Export the masks, ignores, excludes used in a change

We should be able to create the change in one environment and then export those options from the source and import them into the target to do the same change there.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

To provide the option to filter the system objects metadata when audit policy enabled against db2instance user id for db2 luw database in audit captured data.

When native audit with execute category is enabled on db2instance user id , by filter options on system objects schema ex : SYSTOOLS reduces the huge amount of captured data when there is a huge number of tables in an OLTP database continuously up...
5 months ago in Db2 / Security 0 Submitted

Controller Web – IC Reconciliation reports by dimension

I would like to highlight the importance of having the possibility in Controller Web to run IC reports by certain Extended Dimension. We would like to move to the Web version, but without that functionality it does not make sense. Otherwise, we ne...
5 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Potential considerations of ownership and support to Ignore the DB2 re-org(refresh) at table/subscription level

We are facing severe latency issue ( goes up to 3 hours ) in production. Source - mainframe DB2 ( cdc agent installed db2 for zOS) Target : Kafka We have two subscriptions, one is having only cdc/mirroring and other having refresh +mirroring. When...
5 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Add DB2 ALTER TABLE VOLIATE feature.

Add DB2 ALTER TABLE VOLIATE feature, this would default to index scans rather than a table scan if there are no statistics.
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Add DB2 OPTIMIZATION LEVEL to allow more time to be spent in the optimizer for complex queries.

Add a feature similar to DB2 OPTIMIZATION LEVEL to allow more time to be spent in the optimizer for complex queries.
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Set explain on to show time spent on query optimixation.

Set explain on to show time spent on query optimixation. Then we can see which sql could benefit from optimizer hints to reduce cpu usage and improve performance.
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Online change of indexes

We would like to be able to alter indexes as an online change, regardless of whether it is a duplicate index or a unique index (in the latter case it will often be the addition of include columns). We often have changes to indexes in connection wi...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration