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Availability of DROP SYSTEM PERIOD for System temporal tables.

When a table is defined as a system temporal and the changes need to be reverted for any specific reason - A drop of system period would be needed. This functionality is available in Db2 LUW. Without this, the table has to be dropped and recreated.
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

MCI status request to handle FLI buffer over flow.

If FLI buffer is full , MCI status request should reply as MCI is down.
about 1 month ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Affinity scheduling must take L3 cache hierarchy into account

Newer CPUs have multiple L3 caches, with dedicated cores per L3 cache. Running multi-threaded jobs on all cores within a shared L3 cache can reduce runtime in our cases up 70%, compared to running over multiple L3 caches. Think of the AMD EPYC 935...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

Remove the limit on the number of secondary IDs

The documentation states: If RACF is active and the “list of groups” option is active, the routine sets the list of Db2 secondary IDs to the list of group names to which the RACF user ID is connected. The maximum number of groups is 1012. Since RA...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Default view in Workspace

Currently there is no option to create a view in Workbenck without data as it is available in Architect. If you try to create a new in Workbench it consumes a lot memory. here is link to the ticket https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500Ke000002f...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Integrated Pacemaker Monitoring & Alerting Functionality

IBM recently integrated the Pacemaker cluster manager in Db2 but the feature has no documented monitoring or alerting capabilities exhibiting best practices. Enlighten customers with Best Practice/Configuration documentation on how to setup the mo...
7 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Improve Orchestrator Connection functionality for Control Hub REST API Processor

In SDC 5.12.0, there is a new Connection Orchestrator Connection which is available in all Orchestrator stages such as the Start Jobs stages. ControlHub Rest API Processor also supports this connection. The issue is that ControlHub Rest API stage ...
2 months ago in StreamSets 1 Future consideration

use a datamodule in Event Studio

IBM Cognos Event Studio works with source items that were defined in an IBM Cognos Framework Manager model and published as a package. We need that IBM Cognos Event Studio works also with Data Modules.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 10 Not under consideration

Enhance Obsolete Package Cleanup

Be able to feed the existing obsolete package cleanup process with a user generated list of packages for cleanup.
3 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Needs more information
107 VOTE

+/- buttons for column grouping

The ability to group columns in Cognos would be a great feature which is a small thing but a missing element compared to MS Reporting services reporting. https://oxen.tech/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/grouping.gif In fact the (+)/(-) buttons used wi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release