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Add Estimated Percentage Complete for database restore in db2 list utilities show detail

When backup is executing and in another session "list utilities show detail" is executed there is e.g. "Estimated Percentage Complete = 30" displayed. But when restore is performed this estimated percentage is missing. Please add this info for res...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Multi-members selection in a context selector and show only the total in synchronized charts

In PAW, there is the possibility to synchronize charts with context dimension selectors. Selecting one member will show the data related to this member.Our customer needs to be able to select multiple members and show dynamically the total of the ...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Usability of REORG

When we did a big reorg of 32 billion records we missed some details in dis util functionality:1. how long every phase will take place, RTS knows the amount of records needs to be approx unloaded ...if its been done 1 billion in 2 hours means you ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Have different display options for Investigation Reports, specifically the Lead Time so rather than displaying in days we would want to see this in hours

Currently Lead time shows in days and seeing 0.1 days isn't necessarily useful when we want to know lead time in hours
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Ability to exclude packages from the rebind utility

Currently, rebind statements are generated based on what objects have been runstats'd -when included with a RUNSTATS utility profile- or everything -when only using the REBIND utility in the profile-. However, this also includes packages that are ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add %ADD_MONTHS Expression to Support Rolling Date Filtering

We need to be able to replicate only the data created within last 12 months based on the CREATE_TSTMP column. There is a workaround: have a Java exit for this callable via %USERFUNC. However, even that solution is not provided by IBM and has to be...
7 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Use container / cgroup cores when automatically picking threads

Currently, when auto selecting the number of threads, it looks like cplex uses the number of cpu cores. That doesn't work for containers that are cpu limited using cgroups, as the number of threads will be equal to the host machine's cpu core coun...
about 1 year ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

Create a subscription mechanism for reports that could work in an airgapped environment (no access to email). Idea is to show a notification to the user in the Cognos UI itself (using the bell).

The customer is generating reports on a regular basis and is not able to use the standard email distribution for those reports because of he is having an airgapped environment.Currently, the team has been using a workaround proposed by Trevor Come...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Improve Notification table clean up.

We have observed that large number of row counts in the nc database after time that is effecting performance. IBM Cognos BI Schedules Take a Long Time to Complete Can we do more to have observed all tables cleaned up as the following tables with v...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Questionnaire and associated parameters

We need to have functionality to associate a ‘Questionnaire’ with a Risk, Control or other object and leverage the results from the ‘questionnaire’ functionality directly into the parameters of these objects (i.e. we are ‘bypassing’ this limitatio...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 4 Future consideration