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issue DISPLAY BLOCKERS instead of DISPLAY CLAIMERS when DRAIN timeout

Currently when DRAIN fails during REORG, a DISPLAY CLAIMERS is issued. The draw back is there is no "age" information, so user does not know which thread is the blocker, because the claimer could also be waiter.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

FastMap to validate dependent picklists and hidden enum values

We'd like the ability to make FastMap imports do the following two extra validations:1) check that dependent picklist values match their controlling field values2) check that enum values are not currently listed as hidden values
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Not under consideration

Be able to 'Save As' processes to other PA services

For small scripts and testing we often test something out in UAT/DEV. It would be nice not to have to go through a whole migration process to save the process to production
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Visual C++ 2013 EOS

TS016714232 We've noticed that Visual C++ 2013 is a built-in component in Symphony package. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.0?topic=configurations-software-included-spectrum-symphony This has been EOS just since April 2024. So wh...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Future consideration

Support JMX metric Statistics for Kafka Consumer for IBM TCC Library product

It would be most helpful for Kafka performance tuning if there was a JMX metrics report for the Kafka consumer to analysis JMX stats for latency report. Could we dump the JMX values to a file the user provides as part of the IBM TCC Library API? T...
10 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Would like to be able to match the color of the What's New and maintenance banner to match our custom brand colors.

When rebranding Cognos with our custom company colors, the banner is on the landing page and doesn't match our custom colors.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Make Dashboards not sensitive on data module ID changes

We use Cognos as a product component to be deployed to clients. When we develop data modules to clients, clients can create their own interactive dashboards themselves. We have more than one development servers to develop data modules. When we fin...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Improve performance of EXPLAIN

With early versions of DB2 the performance of EXPLAIN was not relevant. Nowadays, where DBAs do thousands of EXPLAINs, the performance and turnaround is getting critical. I think there is room for better performance and throughput of mass EXPLAINs...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Support macOS and Linux on QMF for Workstation 12

QMF for Workstation v12 and above only runs on Windows OS. Provide support for running QMF for Workstation v12 on macOS and Linux platforms as well. This allows full functionality to be provided to users on these platforms.
almost 5 years ago in QMF for z/OS 12 Not under consideration

Resizing 'Select and Search' prompt and 'Change' default option

For Cognos Analytics 11.0.6 version I want to be able to increase the size for the "select and search' prompt(prompt layout size on the prompt page) and want that default option would be as 'Contains any of these keywords'.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration