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Enable cell merge in crosstabs imported into Word

When a crosstab is imported into Microsoft Word, special cell-based border styles are not recognized. IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office respects the formatting style defined for the first cell in the table and applies this style to the entire report.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prevent Data Entry into Consolidated Rule Driven cells within PAW/Architect

Long running thread is spawn when data is spread on a consolidated rule driven cell. If an Admin user does not notice the thread, a restart of the instance is required to kill this thread
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

For Modify Utility, enhance to allow selecting SYSCOPY rows by TYPE (full, incremental) and DSN pattern (DBP.DB2.ICWKY*), Modify should also delete rows where there are no media.

Incrementals are only kept 14 days, Full IC are kept 30 days, DSN pattern DBP.DB2.ICWKY* are kept 30 days. Current Modify does not support deleting the SYSCOPY rows. All are kept 30 days.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Rebuild indexes from index or table panel

We would like to be able to generate JCL for rebuilding one or more indexes from the index or table panel.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ACCUMACC for CICS transactions

ACCUMACC exists to aggregate accounting records for DDF transactions. It would be nice to have the same functionnality with classic transactions (CICS/IMS ..) because it reflects a today usage of these transaction monitoring systems. Without these...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Please show F(X) Function Tab in DATA MODULE reporting

Please refer to TS001457028, the reply by gukaili (Dec. 3rd,2018).It's unconvenience without the F(X) function tab while developing report with data module
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

RFE #5 API SUPPORT

API SUPPORT (REST_API ) FOR DB2AI INCLUDING SYSTEM ASSESSMENT,SQL OPTIMIZATION,DCC TO BE ABLE TO CONSUME THIS DATA FROM INHOUSE TOOLS AND ALSO ALTERT API SUPPORT REQUESTED FOR INTEGRATION TO OTHER TOOLS (such as OBM) THAT CAN CAPTURE ALTERS GROUPE...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

RFE #3 REQUEST TO BE ABLE TO EASILY SET TO TURN OFF DB2AI AFFECTING CHOICE OF ACCESS PATH AT PACKAGE/STATEMENT LEVEL FROM DB2ZAI UI

Ability to ignore Db2zAI chosen access path • Stopping ML will trigger this, however, there is no granularity as package or statement level.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

RFE #2 EXPLAIN ONLY CAPABILITY REQUESTED FROM DB2ZAI UI

Informed decision for the initial rebinds • EXPLAIN ONLY option in Db2zAI UI to understand the access path before the choosing.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Bitwise operators bigger then 64 or 113 bits

We use the bitwise operators for a lot of things. Right now bitwise operators are limited to a 64 bits or 113 bits. We have a need to use bitwise operators at let's say 8192 bits; a number bigger than 113 bits.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration