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Lock data partition

Currently it is merely possible to lock a complete table by means of the "lock table" statement. However, for range partitioned tables, it would be beneficial to be able to lock a specific data partition. That is, a statement like: “lock data pa...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

CATMAINT / ENFM REORG enhancement

CATMAINTs and ENFM REORGs causes major disruption if running alongside current workload. Continuous availabilty requirements means sign-off for planned DB2 outages (version upgrades or catalog reorgs) are very difficult to obtain/justify.
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Option to stop REST API calls from redirect

Currently if a REST response contain 'location' element, the redirect is transparent and there is no way to intercept the redirect. We need the option to not follow the redirect sometimes only to get the and process the location before the redirect.
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Parameters to control Job Planning.

Most of the time we create Jobs to communicate reports & dashboards, We would like to have an automated Job planning based on Dynamic parameters contained in the reports. An example would be a variable that indicate report is empty thus automa...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Update CDC as to being able to replicate multibyte enabled columns without doing conversion when contained data type is single byte

RE : Case TS003082492 - December 2019 We’re replicating new files which now contains DBCS-Open data type columns. However, the contained data is single byte characters only. CDC/IIDR insist on handling these columns as Unicode and converting data,...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Access AWS Redshift via VPN

Currently WatsonStuidio has to access AWS Redshift via internet (public network). Requirement is to make this communication secured ( by VPN for example)
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 4 Functionality already exists

Display loading bar instead of grid lines while opening reports in PAW

Our Team uses Cognos TM1 for Planning and Reporting purpose. we have lot of reports which we access via TM1 Web. Recently we have migrated to Planning Analytics but in PAW we get grid lines before loading the report. There is delay of around 10 to...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PN_STAGEBLOB_THRESHOLD - Set to 1Mb when first table containing BYTE or TEXT is partitioned by Round Robin

Currently, the PN_STAGEBLOB_THRESHOLD onconfig parameter is not present in the standard onconfig file, therefore it defaults to zero. It's absence also means that most DBAs will not be aware of its existence and the potential pain they are in for...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

IBMID for Cognos Analytics

Would like the ability to log into Cognos Analytics on Cloud directly using the IBM ID. Currently the integration with Planning Analytics (which uses the IBM ID) is only possible by clicking the "Report" button in the PA portal. Cannot currently l...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Performant SQL Windowing functionality

We tried to use the syntax for windowing in SQL as an alternative to using subselects. Most other DBMSs perform a lot better with the windowing syntax, but we can only see less performance using it. The reason we want to use it is basically to get...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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