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Population of V12 new added Catalog columns during activation of Function level V12R1M50 and avoid it later during executions of ALTER TABLESPACE because of contention of packages.

After you apply the PTF for APAR PI86123, the first ALTER TABLESPACE, populates any null attributes for objects created in function level V12R1M100 or earlier. When the one-time population occurs for an ALTER TABLESPACE statement, Db2 must quiesce...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Update DB2 (DDF) to use a stronger Hash Algorithm in the DDF global authentication cache feature

Presently, DB2 DDF is using MD5 Hashing in the DDF global authentication cache feature. This hashing cipher is long considered weak and guidance is that it should no longer be used. We ask IBM to consider a change to DB2 to up level this feature t...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve jobs options and features

Better usability and improve productivity Hi , i would like to suggest some improvements regarding jobs on cognos. i have a similar scenario: users have at disposal some views to see the results of prelaunched reports. those reports are built with...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Prevent modification of historical Investment register entries

Users are currently allowed to edit any Investment Register entries, regardless of if they are in a historically closed accounting period. This can cause issues when trying to re-run consolidation for previous periods.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Add ability to have multiple Q-replication targets on Db2wh

Currently on Db2wh, there is no ability to add multiple targets for Q-Replication. Please consider adding that idea as we have business case to implement such solution

Document that mipgap and absmipgap are no pure termination criteria but can impact the path Cplex takes in B&C

As discussed in support case TS007960403, Cplex parameters mipgap and absmipgap can impact the path Cplex takes during Branch and Cut. I suggest to document this because from the description of the parameters one can expect that these are pure te...
almost 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Future consideration

Need Pull down for Attribute values in filters. (Like you have pull down for levels)

Need Pull down option for Attribute values in filters. You can select Attribute for filtering. But you do not get presented with a list of choices. ((Like you have pull down for levels). Easy and useful enhancement
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

DB2 LUW Audit does not capture failed access attempts on restricted tables

Many customers have restricted tables where very few select users will have read/write access. These tables need to be monitored through various means to report all access attempts on the tables. DB2 audit is able to capture only the successful ac...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 2 Future consideration

Improve the way HADR retrieve light scan on standby deals with failures such as DISK FULL

When DB2 HADR Standby is behind 2-3TB, it retrieves all files from archives to active log file system and makes the file system full. Standby replays one log file at a time and hence, retrieving thousands of files ahead slows down the replays, mak...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

DB2 IFI306 metrics

With out IFCID 306 log read metrics, it is difficult assess capture task efficiency and performance
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration