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64bit Interface for PL/I Compiler

When using 64bit PL/I Compile with DB2, the compile needs to copy all parameters before the SQL database access below the bar, and back afterwards. Also, the each access to DB2 s dynamically allocated and deallocated. All in all, this results in a...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

transfer credentials for symphony child sessions

We are currently planning to use the recursive Symphony workload API. Our use case is 3 layers of recursion where the first layer is created by end users and the subsequent 2 layers are created by our application. Currently we cannot use the recur...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

ODBC, OCI and DRS connectors are failing if the source table column length are not matched with defined column length in the connector

In old OCI, DRS and ODBC, the stage won't check the column length of the database table and what we defined in the stage, and it won't give any warning about column mismatch and won't truncate the data if the given length is smaller than the datab...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Attribute Hierarchies - Define at Parent levels

In Planning Analytics Workspace a feature called attribute hierarchies allows users to treat attribute values as a separate dimension in a cube view. This is nice, but at the moment this feature only works on attributes for base dimension elements...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

JSON support using built in functions instead of UDF

JSON functions in DB2 are implemented as UDF functions and it is understood from IBM that there are performance implications for large volume processing using JSON UDF functions. We would like to request IBM to support JSON functions as Db2 built ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Additional Runstats and Copy options when Applying a Change

When applying Schema change using DOE to a target test environment the following additional Runstats and Copy options would be very beneficial: Preserve existing Runstats (rather than Runstats Yes or No) Allow the option of No Copy, but do REPAIR ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to change date format display on date entry

When I am editing a business term and I choose to set a start or end date the format is in USA date format. This should be able to be changed to other formats for none USA deployments
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Tenant Export Feature Enhancements

The current tenant export feature does not export users "My Folders" i.e. their personal folders and schedules. The feature will export Cognos Custom Security roles which are in the Cognos namespace but does not include the membership of these roles.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filtertext should be formatable

The query filter text object should have style and format properties like other text elements.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Classic CDC to enable keep alive messages on the CDO connection

If there is no data changes to flow to the target , Classic CDC will leave the CDO connection idle. Something in the network path appears to be ending these connections such that when they are used after a period of inactivity z/OS Communications ...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration