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Availability of DROP SYSTEM PERIOD for System temporal tables.

When a table is defined as a system temporal and the changes need to be reverted for any specific reason - A drop of system period would be needed. This functionality is available in Db2 LUW. Without this, the table has to be dropped and recreated.
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

MCI status request to handle FLI buffer over flow.

If FLI buffer is full , MCI status request should reply as MCI is down.
3 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Remove the limit on the number of secondary IDs

The documentation states: If RACF is active and the “list of groups” option is active, the routine sets the list of Db2 secondary IDs to the list of group names to which the RACF user ID is connected. The maximum number of groups is 1012. Since RA...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Default view in Workspace

Currently there is no option to create a view in Workbenck without data as it is available in Architect. If you try to create a new in Workbench it consumes a lot memory. here is link to the ticket https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500Ke000002f...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to save Dashboard/Story for offline use

Ability to save, export or otherwise consume a Cognos Analytics dashboard or story while disconnected from the Cognos server. I know this has been declined in the past but I continue to get asked for this in pre-sales and consulting engagements. W...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Redirected Recovery - make REPAIR CATALOG a part of the Redirected Recovery processing

the REPAIR CATALOG on target tablespaces is a must complete step before the data is accessed or indexes rebuilt on the data. If we always need to do this then can this step be included, maybe as a REPAIR CATALOG phase, to the redirected recovery p...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Save report output (Excel/PDF) to a local network directory

Currently, when generating reports from Cognos on Cloud, there is no option to direct the report output to a local network file directory. AS-is, without this functionality end users would be unreasonably required to download thousands of pdf file...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Be able to Add new Tab Icons in Dashboards

If you want to have several tabs in a dashobaord, you want to be able to add you own custom icons that matches what you normally use in your business and not only som standard icons. I would like to be able to add new icons under the "Individual t...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Data Table enhancements

Like what is in Data Tables as a start, but there is functionality missing from them. I can't change the order of grouping, i.e. say I want the current biennium to show in the first row, no way to do this. Filter is lacking, it needs a deselect an...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Planned for future release

Call ALTERED NSP from IDz after ALTER PROCEDURE

Viewing the DDL of a deployed Stored Procedure by right clicking on the DDL and then selecting Open statement in Editor. This process is meant for working with/editing the stored procedure. This method returns the stored procedure text that was us...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review