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Creating Role for user to have rights to only Add New User in Admin client

We need to create a role where for a User who can add New User or change the role of existing user in the Admin client.
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Not under consideration

Dynamically change IFL quantity assigned to an LPAR without restarting DB2

The IFL quantity assigned to an LPAR can be set to a certain number in the configuration screen but there is also an option to enter a number of ‘reserved’ IFLs. It was explained that the reserved amount would require restarting the internal Db2wh...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Optim support on open source Linux

We are limited to using RHEL for Optim installs on Linux. Supporting other Linux flavors such as Ubuntu, CentOS, or AlmaLinux is desirable to drive down support costs.
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Remove limitation on tables with XMl column

Today there is some limitations on tables with XML column. For example, we can't alter the table with ALTER PARTITION partotion-clause for LIMITKEYS. This limit cause us to drop and recreate the table with a lot of data(xml) and for downtime. We a...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provision to carry out DML activities

1. Grants_On_Table/View 2. GRANT_EXECUTE_PLAN 3. GRANT_EXECUTE_PROCEDURE 4. GRANT_USE_ON_TABLESPACE 5. Grant Sequence
over 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Freeze Panes for Excel Output

My client is trying to predict some of the complaints that the end users will have with the burst reports we are building. One of them is having to set the freeze panes field themselves. If there is a way to build in the freeze panes function in C...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW RFE for concurrent LOAD on the same table (vote for 68667)

DB2 LUW does not allow multiple concurrent LOAD on the same range partitioned table or any table. For example, if I have 100 partitions. I can not load all partitions using separate partition files concurrently. [Suggesting load and attaching part...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

prohibit alter/create tablespace not logged

Performing create/alter tablespace to be not logged might be considered a security problem.A solution for this can be a new ZPARM or a special privilege (in RACF & Db2) that will prohibit anyone from doing so, even SYSADM/DBADM etc. Another "c...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Audit Policy enhancement for Global Temporary Tables

Audit policies are used frequently for us to track for a month the Group IDs read, write, etc of standard Tables of Type P,C,T. We would like be able to use this ability to Audit use of created Global Temporary Tables of Type G as well. This would...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Launch Update Structures (FAP) from TM1

I want to be capable of launching the Update Structures functionality, which is available in FAP, from the TM1 server so that I have complete control over the refresh of dimensions in the 'fap' tm1 server and put the functionality in a TM1 chore. ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration