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Omitting Run History on objects

In Cognos, each object (e.g. reports, report views) contains a property for number of Run History occurrences. The default value is 5. The value can vary from 0 (unlimited number of occurrences) to 999 (maximum value). It is however not yet possib...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

FORMAT INTERNAL with REORG DISCARD

REORG with DISCARD does not support FORMAT INTERNAL like UNLOAD and LOAD. REORG with DISCARD is used in many use cases for Archiving OLD data. Having FORMAT INTERNAL in REORG with DISCARD would be good if DISCARD dataset is in INTERNAL format for ...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 system checkpoint size detection

Request a way to display DB2 system checkpoint size and set an alert when it reaches a certain size.
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Limit number of retries for unavailable target database

Source : DB2 z/OS Target : Oracle Target Oracle database became unavailable due to an out of space condition. CDC for oracle did not detect this as an issue and continued its normal processing even though the Oracle Database was not accessible fro...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Limit number of retries for unavailable target database

Source : IMS Target : Oracle Target Oracle database became unavailable due to an out of space condition. CDC for oracle did not detect this as an issue and continued its normal processing even though the Oracle Database was not accessible from thi...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

SQL20342 error should include schema when transferring ownership

When executing a transfer ownership over a stored procedure to a user that does not have privilege over another stored procedure, then Db2 raises this error message: SQL20342N auth-ID does not have one or more required privileges "EXECUTE" on obje...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Add more date and time formats

Please do add more date and time formats to the "Variable Type" and Syntax commands. Microsoft Office Excel do support all kind of varieties, SPSS Statistics should too! I know that many users have to engage in complicated string transformation, t...
about 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

[Resource Management Policy] Resource plan to allow Time Interval by Day

Resource Plan currently allows Time Interval to be defined. This needs to be extended to allow definition based on day of the week. This will make it possible for Resource plans to be limited to weekdays or weekends depending on usage patterns.
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

Performance degradation after enabling RCAC

Performance degradation and difference in behavior of access plan on stored procedure query after enabling RCAC - column masking for a column which is part of select condition. The query access plan without RCAC is scanning only the table (Table A...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Change verbiage on screen for canceling a change

Change verbiage on screen for canceling a change ADB2C41D -> ADB2CONF Some screens mention things like 2. Continue with the delete or something similar to that. This screen just says cancel or continue. Well, in canceling a change it's a bit co...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration