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Timesheet Approval Helper to Show Total Number of Hours for each day as shown in time sheet entry helper.

Timesheet Approval Helper should Show Total Number of Hours for each day as shown in time sheet entry helper.
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Not under consideration

Add Oracle Enterprise Linux to supported environments

In State of Ohio we have Oracle appliances and we have been running COGNOS analytics on OEL(Oracle Enterprise Linux) for he last 7 years. it would be good if IBM can add this in the supported environments which avoids the ambiguity for State and i...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Improve documentation for CLEF nodes

I want to develop new CLEF nodes (not Python nodes -- its performance is very bad), but the documentation is scarce. Please improve the CLEF nodes documentation, add a section to create SQL Pushback with CLEF, add more source code examples, etc.
about 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 3 Not under consideration

Data Sources Alerts

We would like to see some alerts added to the Secure Gateway Data sources to indicate when connections are unavailable.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

LOAD utility should allow huge loads to run with out blocking transactional log files

Please let me explain more about how i look at LOAD utility.LOAD utility is a way to write data into database quickly by ignoring the traditional route into the system, like query processing insert/update/delete.LOAD utility will by pass many perf...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Referential Integrity for Real-time Statistics Tables (RI for RTS)

OVERVIEW: The RTS tables do not have DB2-enforced RI. The DB2 component that handles the maintenance of this data can encounter certain failures that can result in obsolete/invalid/orphaned data in the table(s). By the way, this is more prevalent ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Skip the Audit DB connection and move over to Content Store during service start, if Audit DB is down

When the Cognos Services start the first check is the Audit Database.If the Audit Database is down, then the check should move further leaving a message that Audit DB has a problem, instead of services going into infinite loop. Note: very importan...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Can access federation object in the trigger body

The db2 instance have multiple database, and customer want to access a user table that locate in another database through Db2 trigger .
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

DB2Z-Allow for EXCHANGE DATA function on Clone table to NOT put packages in VALID status of 'A'

We have processes that use the clone table feature to allow for non disruptive load operations. When we do the exchange data the packages on the primary table move to a VALID STATUS of 'A' when they had a status of 'Y' previously. This creates iss...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to recover an individual table

We need the ability to recover an individual table faster. HPU does not work weel on VLDB databases as it does not support pipes and there is no indexing of tables within a TS in a backup image.
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration