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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Db2 Templates should support defered tape Mounts

We use a VTL for our Tape Environment. For a VTL it is recommended by IBM to use UNIT=(TAPE,,DEFER) in all Jobs. DB2 uses templates to generate JCL. In this templates it is not possible to code a DEFER parameter. Is there a way to solve this dilemma?
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

HADR PS MEM restore

背景:HADR+PS环境,主端ps的mem0节点宕机无法恢复,利用新设备以mem0的身份加入集群问题:当新设备以mem0身份加入时报错,由于集群拓扑结构发生变化数据库处于inconsistent状态,所以无法将MEM0重新加入,当拓扑结构发生变化时不应该影响数据库的一致性;
over 4 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

IFERROR Function does not work in PAw

We are working on the reports we will be deploying shortly and this a issue with the CAGR concept =IFERROR(F13/F$13,"n/c ") is an example. They work fine in PAx, but when we view them in PAw we get #NAME? errors returned. See attached example. Wil...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Preserving of the server .xml settings when starting from commandline in Linux

Preserve the server .xml settings when we choose the option use ./cogconfig.sh –s to start service. This saves the server.xml losing all the changes (we use it for configuring AJP port, by uncommenting the setting and sometimes changing the AJP ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add function to sort Expiration Date on License Key Center

Our Business Partner sells customers instead of us.Because of that they ordered many contracts every day. In the case of Term License, for example, they would like to generate authcodes which associated with entitlement's expiration date (ex. 31st...
about 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Recover statements to LOGPOINT based in the base Image Copy type (Tablespace or partition level)

There was a request to recover all Tablespaces in a DB to an specific LRSN.In the Admin tool, at Database level the DBAs generated the Recover TOLOGPOINT statements by typing UTIL in the command line, then in the panel ADB2US selected option VP an...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Prohibit inoperative packages after drop function

DROP and CREATE of userdefined function KZZ.LEXSORT set packages KIS##01 and KIS##30 to inoperative. Error in IMS region BOKMSG8F: SQLCODE = -904, ERROR: UNSUCCESSFUL EXECUTION CAUSED BY AN UNAVAILABLE RESOURCE. REASON 00E30305, TYPE OF RESOURCE 0...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

More user friendly and correct IC Reconcile Intercompany Balances report, if using large dimension/BA structure

See attached file with current report and suggestions to change the report to show correct and useful and a lot more user friendly information.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

CPD Service Catalog to add support to manage business partner license information

Business partners' services are listed in the Service Catalog. Once enabled, an administrator needs to apply license info that applies to the service. The administrator also needs to know how much resource units (or other metrics) are entitled and...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Add SAP HANA to Cloud offering

We want to connect to our extensive SAP HANA investment. The functionality exists for on-prem CP4D, and we want to have it for our SaaS offering. As we've made the transition to cloud and most new SAP customers are also cloud-centric, none are abl...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0