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DIS UTIL enhancement for FlashCopy - in COPY as well as in RECOVER

We have converted our copy schedule to FlashCopy. We run 10 jobs in parallel each job have between 500-600 objects in it. The DISPLAY UTILITY does not show the progress of the DFDSS copy. Db2 generates DFDSS commands for 80 datasets, but this is n...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Show status "active/pending" in Management Console and not just '"active" when DMFS510P metadata table "UPDSTS=2" in CDC DB2 for i

if the status of a table in the back end system (CDC Db2 for i) is 'active/pending' ( metadata table DMFS510P PF when "UPDSTS=2" - "active/pending") for any reason, that this status is visible in the CDC Management Console.
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Enhanced Instrumentation for workfiles

A possibility through IFI and/or a new command -DIS WORKFILES to get an “asis” use list of all work pools (Sort , DGTT, Work etc.) This data is crucial for tuning the number, size and type of the work spaces that we all have. The output should be ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Custom Tooltips in Dashboards & Reports

Custom Tooltips is an extremely helpful thing for anyone Cognos users. Please add this feature in all possible scenarios mainly Dashboards and Reports.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Not under consideration

Dynamic Cubes relative time members in Dashboards

Would like the ability to use relative time members when creating dashboards, eg. current year, from Dynamic Cubes.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Waterfall visualization - legend labels should be localized for any output format

The waterfall visualization is only localized when using HTML output.Other output formats like PDF generates for example legend labes only in English. Neither product nor content language has any impact. Alternative the labels should be customizab...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Waterfall visualization localization should be triggered by content language

Actually the Waterfall visualization uses product language to localize information.We noticed that the language chosen for the legend label depends on product language. Furthermore the legend label is hard coded in English when report out is not H...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Tenant level recoverability : The ability to take backups and restore at the tenant level

If Namespace Separation is going to be used for lots of test/dev databases, people would need to be able to do backup/restore of their own tenants.
about 1 year ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Deprecation/Removal Notice/Warning for Deprecated LLM Models on Watsonx AI via Watsonx SDK call. Support case CS4244931

As users of the Wastonx AI platform, most of the time we use the watsonx python SDK to call the model API. Support case CS4244931 Currently:Now, we can see the deprecation as well as removal details of a particular model from the Watsonx UI in pro...
11 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review

Enable customers running 24/7 to create unique indexes

Our Internet and Mobile applications are used 24/7 and we do not have any batch windows nor any maintenance windows. When creating new indexes on existing tables the a CREATE INDEX operation generates an unwanted outage when created with DEFER NO....
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Future consideration