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Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration

Change Load Backout YES delete log process

During execution of LOAD RESUME YES BACKOUT YES SHRLEVEL NONE LOG NO DISCARDS 1, if 1 duplicate row is funded, all rows loaded will be backed out, regardless if there was just 1 duplicate. DB2 call Data Manager back out all the other rows writing ...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

autosave capability

Provide an autosave capability prior to the user being logged out of OpenPages. Currently, OpenPages logs out a user after 15 minutes of inactivity. Prior to that automatic logoff, OpenPages should save the latest draft of object.
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Fix 'Pack LRSN field' description on help panel ALAZT780

From the Tutorial , option '78 LOAD expert options' the description of the 'Pack LRSN field' is incorrect."It does not change the definition of the target header column (if used), which is still a CHAR(12) field, but would contain only the packed ...
7 days ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Request for a plugin to address the lockout issue. To be implemented included in FP3 Patch delivery

This new RFE has been requested by the IBM Dev Team. Reference https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SPCS-I-1113__;!!Jkho33Y!jDQwS2syU1P26kiq9Pqd2MGED4qxhSXCiN4gZsyyO2Z-zpfFnTNMScAaj75qeJFe4dspTQVNgkf4mZJ0D2L83g$ "For plugin lock...
7 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Add millisecond to DTLRPT time field

The detail in the DTLRT include the time as hh.mm.ss but missing the milliseconds. This is import when we investigate the sequence of events of two processes or between sysplexes. (Replication Exceptions). One millisecond could make a difference.
7 days ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Increase width of GENRPT and SUMREPT

These reports are only 80 bytes wide. GENRPT: the report could be wider to accommodate a wider table name of 30 characters.Or, If an option could be added to produce a one line report, meaning for every table per URID, the report will be 240 chara...
7 days ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Increase length of Table name on all reports

On all DTLRPT, DTLSUMR, GENRPT, SUMREPT the table name length is 18 characters and overflow to next line. Since V8 of DB2, the table name was extended to VARCHAR(128). When creating a program to read any of these reports, one has to include extra ...
7 days ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Adjust header on DTLRPT to the length on Report row length

On the DTLRPT the record length of data portion can be selected but the customer, but the header is not adjusted to the same width [Report row length..... 15000 (00080-32752) ]
7 days ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow robust Order-By and Group-By reporting

ORDER-BY: Allow selection on which log field to order the General and Detail reports by, for example CORRID or AUTHID or TIMESTAMP or URID (URID is the current default) GROUP-BY: Allow selection on which log field to Group the GENRPT and DTLSUM an...
7 days ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted