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Joining a temporal table with an archive-enabled table

In DB2 z/OS V11.1, we getting a -20555 SQLCODE when trying to join a temporal table with an archive-enabled table. We were surprised to see it didn't work. The manual talks about those tables being “mutually exclusive”, which to me would mean ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Using numerical attribute from Planning Analytcis within Cognos Analytics

TS000103720When using a Planning Analytics cube as a data source, numerical Attributes with the value of 0 are not visible in reports.Therefore, for the numeric value 0, there are no possibilities to filter or set a default value for any prompt it...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance the DISPLAY LOG COMMAND to show if a specific active log dataset belonging to one member of a data sharing group is allocated to 1 or more other members in the data sharing group.

This command would be useful to allow DB2 SYSPROGS/DBAs to see if a specific active log dataset belonging to one member of a data sharing group is allocated to 1 or more other members in the data sharing group. This would allow the REMOVAL PENDING...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow the SQL ALTER statement to convert SYNONYMS into ALIASES.

We have over 800,000 synonyms across 100+ DB2 subsystems/data sharing groups to convert to aliases. In our production environments, the conversion of synonyms to aliases (DROP SYNONYM/CREATE ALIAS) is going to cause carnage because all of our prod...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Connecting to multiple Snowflake databases inside same Snowflake warehouse

Currently when a Snowflake datasource connection is created, it is mandatory to provide 1 warehouse and 1 database detail. But we would like to connect to multiple databases within the warehouse, in this way we can avoid creating multiple connecti...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

oncheck should be able to repair bad rowids in an index

oncheck should be able to repair bad rowids in an index. i.e. remove bad rowids and add missing rowids. i.e. online index repair.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

New chart feature Required

We are unable to show the percentage and Total Sum in the same chart. The total should be shown on the top and the details will be shown as percentage. The percentage chart shouldn't be 100% stacked.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Deletion of closed reporting periods

With the importance of deleting sensitive data combined with GDPR related duties, we would appreciate a solution to select and then delete (or anonymize) reporting periods. More specifically, our system includes various reportings happening on a q...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Not under consideration

New message indicating how many rows are deleted in SYSCOPY and SYSLGRNX by MODIFY RECOVERY

Sometimes MODIFY RECOVERY does something although not visible by existing messages. With this enhancement customer can see what was done in the joblog and customer do not need to check SYSCOPY and SYSLGRNX before MODIFY RECOVERY and afterwards to ...
6 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Register all dependencies in SYSPACKDEP

Today SYSPACKDEP records the dependencies of packages - but not dependencies related to RI. That means that a user or a tool needs to run additional queries to understand all dependencies to e.g. answer the question: which packages do I need to RE...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration