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Change the backup name from ONLINE to semi-ONLINE as the onlines backups are not supported. Please see TS014902228

Online backup has many issues for db2 (TS014902228)
10 months ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Enhance API data export to provide day-by-day reports

We are using API Connect for an application that requires regular reporting to financial authorities. The report includes day-by-date statistics on number or calls and average latency. Report is generated from data available in API Connect Analyti...
10 months ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Final value of color range to be single number

setting a color range on a integer value, it would be nice if the final value could be just 1 number. for example, we'd like to set colors on a field that contains a total of X. The color is red for 0 to 90, Yellow from 91-99 and green only when i...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

System Assessment-Hide/Unhide metrics features based on user role

Currently, each user is able to Hide/Unhide Metrics under the Db2zAI dashboard for their own view. It would be very helpful if the Db2 AI administrator could choose which metrics would be available to show. For example, there are metrics that we o...
over 1 year ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Datagate authnetification using user / certificate

« At the present time we’re using Datagate to replicate in a live stream our DB2 z databases on DB2 LUW (Linux one) instances. This replication is done using a fixed user/password to connect to our DB2z instances. As it’s not recommended by our se...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Under review

Backup retention up-to 7 years

For databases that require long-term retention of backups for audit purposes, allow for 7 years of retention for database backups. In terms of restore, we expect to restore only from the same Db2 version and the older files are only for audit purp...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Future consideration

Port TM1runTI.exe to use TM1/PA RestAPI

In our application we have a certain number of processes that use TM1runti.exe calls to execute other TI processes.It can be to enforce a transactional behaviour within a sub-process, to execute processes on other TM1 servers, ... In implementa...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Query optimization by not creating an extra query for summaries

In reports running with full interactivity having a dimensional source (DMR or Cube) you need to use the built in summary function in order to have a summary. This since any drill-downs will create a new data item and you can't reference a specifi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

HAA$JOPT support REXX for USER Exit Names

Reorging of TS with NPSI in the maintenance window causes increase elapsed time and shortage of DASD. Need the capability in HAA eliminate partitions over a certain row amount. We use 100M. Using this the reorgs do not abend. Each week the next se...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add doopl in the CPLEX distribution on Watson Studio

relying on docplex python API got much easier since docplex was included in the CPLEX product. doopl which is a python package that allows to call OPL model from python code can be download from https://pypi.org/project/doopl/ but having doopl in ...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Planned for future release