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When DB2 writes a message to the DB2 Log, DB2 could also optionally write the contents of the message to a new IBM Catalog Table SYSIBM.DB2_Messages or a user defined table.

WHY THIS IS A GOOD IDEA Many of our DB2 subsystems and members remain active for several months or more. Searching for a DB2 Message can take a long time in SDSF when analysing and diagnosing problems. Having all of the DB2 Messages in a Table mak...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow sort by column measure of crosstab on a dashboard

The Crosstab visualization on a dashboard does not allow for sorting based on the measures displayed in a column.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Db2u without OpenShift

We have a cloud-native strategy that Db2u fits better than most other RDBMSes. We also have a fairly mature Kubernetes infrastructure. We would really like to run db2u on native Kubernetes, without OpenShift.
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Future consideration

Make RESYNC port secured

Why is it useful?Making the DB2 resync port secure will protect it from getting hacked or allowing unsecured connections to a port that could be used to serve data from the mainframe for nefarious purposes beyond two-phase commit work. Who would b...
10 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

Improvement to Report Bursting: Recover from a fail, better error reporting

When bursting a report it is difficult to work out which parts of the burst have been successful or not. After a burst Cognos should be able to tell you which burst keys were successfully burst and if any emails were sent. It should also be able t...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

In Cognos log: Change Classification of expected behaviour from Level ERROR to INFO

As of now in the Cognos log files there are a great amount of lines classified as error eventhough it is an expected behaviour. Could you please chnage the classification of these expected behaviours to either info or maybe a new level. This would...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

a standard error message on PAW for server being not available

Dear IBM, we need a standard error message that the server is not available. It would also be nice that if there are many objects in the book that we only get one message that the server is not available and not for every object in the book. Thank...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Include latest Java version for DB2 in interim Fixes and special builds

DB2 special builds that address security vulnerabilities do not include the latest available Java version for DB2. If you update Java for DB2 to the latest available version on FixCentral and later apply a special build, Java is replaced with an o...
5 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Conversion DECIMAL do CHAR

We are in the process of migrating data from Db2 z/OS to Db2 LUW. In our many programs we convert DECIMAL data into CHAR, e.g. to display it on the reports in a readable format. Unfortunatelly Db2 LUW formats data diffrently than Db2 z/OS. Let us ...
10 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Submitted

Make options in context menu in datasource pane from packages available in datamodules

If a user makes a right-click on a column in the data source pane in Report Studio, then the context menus differ depending if it's a package or a datamodule. The menu of a datamodule is much shorter than the menu when the source is a package. Men...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration