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Lack of information about Queries from Federated DBs - particulary from DB2 z/OS

From DSM we should be able to see the transactions from federated databases. In the case when we are having some federated transaction contention we are not able to see on the source database on DSM getting more difficulty to diagnose a performanc...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Improve backup configuration

Actually we need to define some environment variables like DSMI_DIR, DSMI_CONFIG to implement a TSM backup. So in case we forget to configure this at first moment we will need to do an instance restart. Would be better to consider some dynamic par...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 4 Not under consideration

Improve lock management

Eliminate a lock needed by a SELECT statement in order to performance a query without need to implement a dirty read - UR.Although there is a solution doing an uncommitted read on the transaction, it requires an application modification changing t...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Execution Plan

At execution time DB2 recommend and implemment the best execution plan for a transaction/procedure automatically.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Inclusion of missing area names for Kuwait

In Cognos version 11.0.12, for the country Kuwait , the list of master records with Area names for Map visualization is not exhaustive. Hence, the area names received from other source systems like SAP, are different from that of Cognos Map. As a ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Default 'Active Only' to unticked on Grid View

It would be useful to choose whether we can default the 'active only' tick box to unticked. Giving users this option would be good as we have implemented workflows but if an object has gone through a workflow then it does not appear when 'active o...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Consumer-Root in Public Folder wthin Cognos-Office

On BI-Server there is a feature to restrict content browsing for Users in Public Folder: System.xml ...In Cognos-Office this feature is not aktice. User are able to browse the entire contents of Public Folder. This feature should be implemented in...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Focus on Supernode Zoom Out

When zooming out from a Supernode, I would like to return to the same area of the canvas that was visible before I zoomed in to the Supernode or to have the Supernode in the center of the screen.The current behavior is that a different section of ...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Allow to connect own external entities

Hi.My idea is to make it possible to connect your own directory with entities. The dialogs contain data that must be detected in the conversation, e.g. city, street names, names, brands, car models and so on.Such data is difficult to enter in syst...
almost 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Include the Parameter Long Name in the "Parameters" tab of a Job Step

In IBM SPSS Modeler, the user can define stream parameters that can be used in the nodes in various ways. This is extremely useful when creating streams that serve as 'templates' for different, but similar, purposes.Each parameter has a name, whic...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration