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Decouple archive log purging from BACKUP utility

For databases using AUTO_DEL_REC_OBJ, at the end of the BACKUP utility there is a synchronous process which purges any history records and their associated archive logs. This can take a very long time on busy systems. It is necessary to decouple t...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Limit Concurrent Sessions per user in Content Store

Limit the amount of cuncurrent sessions a user can log into the content store. This is a security issue if a user can do so too many times
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

For QMF 13 migration to a different platform -- Please provide export and import features for Scheduled Tasks, User Preferences, QMF Weblinks and other such items in QMF Appdata

We are looking to migrate from QMF 12.2.0.5 to QMF 13.1.1.0 IF1 on Windows environment . To migrate everything which resides in Application Data which includes among other things like Scheduled Tasks, User Preferences, QMF Weblinks etc . There is ...
about 1 month ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Under review

For CDC to support the BFILE datatype

Dear Team, As BFILE is unsupported datatype in CDC for Oracle Xstream. We are not able to MAP table with BFILE datatype at source. Even if a source table column is not mapped, the CDC source still needs to understand the datatype of the column to ...
about 1 month ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Make it easier to run Consolidations automatically

Our main User Group (Group Consolidation team) are aware of the ability to create automatic Consolidaitions via menu "Consolidation With Status" and "Schedule job...". But they want to create Consolidations on batch/schedule them in a more automat...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

Unable to identify the broken links for cognos report versions

We have recently upgraded our cognos version from 11.1.7 IF10 to 11.2.4FP2 on our lower environments and we noticed that it is not possible to identify broken links just by looking at it in upgraded environment. We noticed that it was better in 11...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Ability to check storage performance

After moving to the cloud, in particular, managed service a user loses the ability to verify storage performance. There should be a stored procedure that allows such a possibility. Basic metrics, like IOPS, bandwidth, etc. Such a service would bui...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

IF function - Account mappings Controller Web

Cognos Classic includes a feature that maps an account code from an imported to a TB code based on whether it is a Dr or Cr. This is executed through an IF function which directs the balances to the correct Cognos code based on the imported value....
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Maker-Checker Capabilities on User Management

Safer Payments is being used by banks where there are extensive auditing and internal controls on what user profiles are being created and how are they being used. The absence of any authorization capabilities in Safer Payments while creating user...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

RID problem instrumentation improvement

The IFI 2 & 3 fields QISTRLLM and QISTRPLM and the RID fields in the 316 and 401 are all basically “useless” these days to actually detect a RID related limit problem. I know that the QXRFMIAP is available in the IFI 2 & 3 but it is needed...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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