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Add Module Source To Properties Of Module

Instead of having to edit the module and drill into the module tree to find the data server(s) the module is based on, add this to the Properties of the module.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

New Database Parameter to Open Db2 for LUW Backup Files in Read-Only Mode for Deleting It

Refer to case TS005462380 for more details. Due to the rise in hackers targeting backup data files, our company has implemented Retention Lock on all backup files, including Db2 database backup files and archive log files, by changing the file per...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Support mixed row/column environments without requiring CUR_COMMIT=ON

We have recently run into a problem when we enable Cur_commit because of the locking behavior expected by some applications (they expect blocking). Therefore, we have to disable CC, but then that app cannot use blu. We want to give our plant the a...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Planned for future release

SELinux policies for Informix on RHEL version 7 and upwards

At startup the Informix database spawns a number of processes, that run as unconfined SeLinux processes. From the permission perspective, some of these processes run as informix user (example: cpu and encrypt vps) whilst others run as root user (l...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

CSDK support for static links under the latest GCC releases

Currently the only way to produce a statically linked utility using ESQL/C is to compile and link with a GCC release earlier than 5.5. The latest is now v13. Messages look like this: art@Elbereth : ~/GoogleDrive/Latest $ esql -static -o dbstruct d...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 4 Future consideration

Active Form functionality to Expand/Collapse columns for PAX & Perspectives

At the moment you can only use Active Form expandable/collapsible consolidations in rows only. Customers is asking can that same functionality to be added to columns also. For example they could collapse/expand years to months and vice versa.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

To enable increase in the memory for a job when overall memory resource limit is in place in lsb.resources

Case#Case number TS001621460 can be referred for this RFE. Explanation was: I have discussed with development team again, currently, LSF can not satisfy the increase memory request by bmod command for a running job when there is a general limit de...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Not under consideration

Enhance the db2pd flag -quiesceinfo

The following db2pd flag, -quiesceinfo, only applies to PureScale even though this is not clearly documented. We would like to see this available on all DB2 LUW installations.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Add a standard disclaimer(Notes) to outgoing cognos 11 reports

How to add a standard disclaimer to outgoing cognos 11.06 reports.When user selects DELEVERY OPTION: E-MAIL REPORTwe would like user to get e-mailed report with standard disclaimer (notice or warning which is added to an outgoing email)
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Error handling strategy for Match360 message triggers that fail to be written to kafka topics

When IBM Match360 publishes entity or record messages to Kafka topics, a strategy for error handling is needed if the message fails to be written: - configurable number of retries before an error is raised - configurable time-out before an error i...
about 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration