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Allow parallel offline table reorg of range partitioned tables with non partitioned indexes (NPI)

Offline (classic) table reorgs might still be necessary in certain scenarios and can run for a very long time for huge tables (>24h). It is very hard to find a suitable window in a 24x7 System. Offline table reorgs - which have at least one non...
8 months ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Under review
107 VOTE

Ability to make join queries on different packages in RA

Ability to make join queries on different packages in RA
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Baselines and Trendlines on the Cognos Visualizations

We need baselines and trendlines in Report Studio visualizations but they are not available
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Search should look for Ids, not just labels

WIthin Data Modules and Reports you can for items. For example, I could search for 'Sales'. This will show me all the items with Sales in the name. However, within reports and data module expressions, it is an objects Id that is shown and not the ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Make vm_type details in lsb. Acct file

vm_type is field is available only on event file . Can this be made available for Acct file as well? We extract lot of job information from Acct file so it will be good if we get vm_type details in the same file
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Under review

Integrate RACF into ADMIN tool

Would be nice to have for 'DB2 under RACF'-sites that we can see on a object which auth RACF Profile rule is used. And see who/groups are on this profile. And give an message if you dont have auth to see this (in RACF organised)
11 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Db2 TOTAL_CPU_TIME monitoring metric on AIX should reflect "wall" CPU time and not use PURR-scaled time reported currently by thread_cputime AIX API

Db2 monitoring interfaces report "CPU time" metric (TOTAL_CPU_TIME), which accounts the time that given activity/request (and all higher level aggregated interfaces) spent actively "on CPU" whilst executing the query. On AIX this information is ob...
12 months ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Future consideration

DB2: Enhancing DB2 decision making during starting up in DEFER ALL mode

We would like to enhance the DB2 product when starting a database with the "defer all" zparm parameter. It is unfortunate that there is a limit of 2500 in place, and it is also unfortunate that the trusted context is not automatically built, even ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

I would like to preserve the new line character(\n) when uploading data files.

When I upload an Excel or CSV data file to Cognos Analytics, new line characters contained within text columns are automatically converted to space characters. On the other hand, new line characters included in database text columns are handled wi...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted
100 VOTE

automatically activate a database when DB2 LUW is started

See PMR 14855,227,000. We would like some way to automatically activate a specific database when a DB2 instance is started without the use of external scripts or DB2 APIs.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 6 Planned for future release