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Making the real-time stats externalization optional

The Automation Tool issues the ACCESS DATABASE(*) SPACE(*) MODE(STATS) command whenever the REALTIMESTATS option is used in an exception profile. This default behavior causes some problems: Since the ACCESS command is issued to every DB and TS in ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Provide a flag for Cloning tool to unload/Load tables having RI

Currently, the Cloning tool does not Unload/Load tables that have RI defined on them. This is despite the fact that these tables become eligible for Unload / Load due to legitimate reasons like Source Target Mismatch where Source defined as a Simp...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 3 Delivered

This is a request for CDC/IIDR to provide an augmented timestamp, using an ordinal/sequence number on top of the Db2 LUW second granularity....to give better ordering for JMS targets.

FedEx initially benefits but later on all companies doing replication from mainframe platform to LUW. CDC/IIDR retrieves timestamps (via @timstamp) from the source DBMS. When the source is Db2/z, for instance , we return their timestamp which is...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Add lsb.params setting to limit the number of times a job can be redispatched upon either a pre-exec failure of job initilization failure

We currently have jobs that will bounce from host to host either based upon a pre-exec failure, or a job initialization failure. This can impact > 500 hosts and cause an increase in MBD memory use. It would be nice to have a setting such as: MA...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

Enable TM1 Cube as a data source in Cognos Analytics Dashboard Creation

It would be great, if you enable TM1 Cube to be used as a data source for developing Cognos Dashboard in Cognos Analytics (v11).
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Synchronize functionality between different dimensions

In many solutions there are dimensions that represent the same entity with different granularity, e.g. product and product group. When two cubes use these different dimensions, it would be useful to be able to synchronize a PAW sheet across these ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Sort the error logs in PAW by latest date

Would save time to directly open the latest error log as currently it shows the oldest logs first and have to sort it to view the latest ones.
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Cognos 10.2.2-Workspace Adv, Dynamic Drill to detail report does not pass context filters.

In Cognos 10.2.2-Workspace Advanced, the feature Dynamic Drill to detail report does not pass context filters. It passes the dimension values based on the selected intersection but does not pass the context filter value. This feature Works fine in...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Add custom variables in Planning Analytics Workspace TI process editor

Currently, the TI process editor in PAW doesn't allow you to add custom variables, which is available in Architect. Although these can be defined in the script, having metadata and data variables defined with the data source variables enhances rea...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered

Parameter to suppress the generate of Grant Statements in Db2 Cloning Tool

When we clone tablespaces from a production to a test Db2 system we would like to suppress all authorizations on the target objects (e.g. tables, views), because users don't possess the same privileges in these two environments. At this time cloni...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered