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UDC functionality in PAx. Using a subset reference in a DBRW function.

The feature is not new per say, because it works in Perspectives. The request is for the function to use a subset reference in a DBRW function (the UDC functionality). Then a user can create a workbook with unique references and analyses data in a...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

DB2 accounting SMF101 with reporting class

The absence of report class in DB2 SMF record 101 is cumbersome for capacity management. Report Class is used for workload reporting and accounting. To match SMF 72 (values by report class) with SMF 101 (values by thread, i.e. for userid and other...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Manipulating a custom node from a stream script

want to manipulate a custom node from a stream script. Currently, it is possible to create a custom node from a stream script using "createAt", but it is not possible to set the value using "setPropertyValue". Since custom nodes cannot be manipula...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Driver and stub object of spss.pyspark.runtime to be eased developing Python extension.

It is difficult to develop on extension nodes or custom node dialog builder. want a driver object for development. I'd like to write a code with the other IDE such as VSCode or Pycharm outside of Modeler. So I request the driver and stub object of...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Audit Trail for Workflow Action Comment

Currently, change history does not include previous comments made in the "Action Comment" field (workflow comment popup). The popup cannot be used to serve as rejection or approval if the comment (which might provide conditional approval) is not t...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 2 Not under consideration

Modeling Function to Pivot / Unpivot tables

Many tables are stored in efficient database structures. It is very common the data needs to be pivoted from a row based table to a column-based table in order to calculate across columns (or vice-versa). Pivot and unpivot are common sql functions...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add built-in function for generating new UUID values

Generating new UUIDs for large tables has become a serious performance issue for us. We have a workflow in our application that updates a UUID column for tables in excess of 5 million rows. This takes us upwards of 2 hours in our odbc (cli) applic...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

MDX Subset does not update in paw

We have a model with various dynamic subsets, that uses MDX to read a text from a cell in a cube, and creates a subset based on that cell. The subsets, in general, works without any problems. The problem arise when we apply the subset in Planning ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Object should go into advisory reorg when PCTFREE, PCTFREE for update, FREEPAGE is altered instead of immediate alter to have the REORG pick it up and ensure it is done. Having it immediate is just a catalog update and it might be missed.

When Altering PCTFREE, PCTFREE for UPDATE or FREEPAGE, the DB2 catalog is updated and the DBA must ensure a reorg is run to materialize the change. A process that can be missed. I would like to see this as a pending change and have the reorg pick ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance ALTER STOGROUP DROP ‚storage-path’ with optional specification of the Path_ID

As you may ADD the same path multiple times to a storage group (in order to have multiple containers of a single tablespace within that path), it should be possible to even DROP a single reference to that path from the storage group as well! But s...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration