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Add SQL-statement COMMENT ON as in Oracle or PostgreSQL

For some tables or columns it would be helpful to describe what the table/column is used for since the names are not always self-explanatory. Although COMMENT ON is not part of standard SQL it would be helpful to have such a statement. The DOCUMEN...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 6 Future consideration

Allow the addition of new components during the upgrade process.

At present, upgrading Cognos Analytics reads the currently installed components from the cmplst.txt file, and only upgrades those components. It is not possible to add any additional or new components (for example, Image Service) during an upgrade...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

Bitemporal tables and missing highest quantiles

If a user issues FOR BUSINESS_TIME AS OF clause against a bitemporal table, DB2 translates it to a where clause with two range predicates against business_time columns. In our system following situation occurs quite frequently: 1) At all time...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Future consideration

Enhance MON_GET_TRANSACTION_LOG to return Transaction Log number of OLDEST_TX_LSN and the Transaction log number of the minbuflsn recovery information returned by db2pd -dirtypages

Enhance MON_GET_TRANSACTION_LOG to return Transaction Log number of OLDEST_TX_LSN and the Transaction log number of the minbuflsn recovery information returned by db2pd -dirtypages. For example when trying to identify the reason for the First Acti...
11 months ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Add Option to Migrate Datasets that were Recalled as Part of a Scan

Please add an option so a user can specify that the LAT job submitted migrates any datasets (thinking archive log datasets here) that it had to recall to complete the scan. An example would be where a user attempts to scan multiple days in the pas...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Need to support inplace reorg on partitioned table with global indexes

This is critical in a 2 sense; 1) Performance The customer has many range-partitioned table with global indexes and most of them left unreorganized because INPLACE REORG on Inplace reorg on range-partitioned table with a global index is not suppor...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

Relative path for images used in dashboards and story's like in reports

After export/import from onprem to cloud all images remain intact in reports because we use relative paths. Because we could not use relative paths in story's and in dashboards, this became a problem for us now. We had to do a search on an export ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Future consideration

Enable use of DSN_PROFILE* tables global variables for local workload

At the following link, we see global variables can be used with profile tables. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=connections-setting-built-in-global-variables-profile-tables However, there is a sentence that mentions the following:...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Run process in sandbox in workbench

I can't imagine, that this is not possible yet, but since tm1forum was not able to support, nor Google nor ChatGPT , this seems to be missing or being a bug. I was not able to run a process in a sandbox in a workbench of PAW. From the architect I'...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Set Partition Index, DPSI to the same DSSIZE as Tablespace when converting to RPN and ALTER TABLESPACE DSSIZE is after ALTER TABLESPACE PAGENUM RELATIVE

In numerous cases it is impossible to put the ALTER TABLESPACE DSSIZE in front of the ALTER TABLESPACE PAGENUM RELATIVE due to the number of partitions and page size. Currently this only works with the following. After the reorg materialization th...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration