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Insert in DB2 iSeries tab...

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almost 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

New pane that shows all objects on a PAW Sheet

PAW is becoming an increasingly important end user interface. Presently there is no way to view all of the objects that reside on each PAW sheet. As interfaces become more complex workbook sheets are used to house more images, videos, shapes, KPIs...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Additional spaces in a Value Prompt when static values used

Additional empty spaces in a Value Prompt/ Radio button prompt in a interactive report when static values used and multiselect set to yes. No additional spaces in non interactive report.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enhancement of Cognos Treeprompt

The existing Tree-Prompt ist not sufficient for complex selections, especially in large dimensions.An enhancement would be preciated.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Single Select Value Filter/Prompt Drop Down List in Dasboards

want to have a dashboard filter like we can do in reporting, where the user can select only one value in a drop down list prompt. This capability does not exist currently in Dashboards
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Bring back support for Virtual View Manager (ODBC) data source

In Cognos 10.2.2 we were using IBM Cognos Virtual View Manager (ODBC) also known as Composite (ODBC) data source to select online a WSDL interfaceand also in Data Manager as package data source.In Cognos Analytics VVM has been deprecated in 11.0.2...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

ALTER TABLE LOCKSIZE TABLE for BLU tables

ALTER TABLE LOCKSIZE TABLE is an easy way to save lock list and lock acquire for tables that just get accessed by a single application at a given time.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

LOAD should allow collecting STATISTICS without USE PROFILE option for row based tables

LOAD collects "default" statistics like auto-runstats when loading into BLU (RUNSTATS ... WITH DISTRIBUTION AND SAMPLED DETAILED INDEXES ALL).I assume this got not changed because the fear of incompatibility with existing behavior. Therefore pleas...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

auto-reorg OLR for cleanup of overflows

Auto-reorg should use online window to issue REORG CLEANUP OVERFLOWS (and also trigger a RUNSTATS afterwards).Problem to solve: SQL optimizer thinks overflow accesses are quite expensive and then might to start choosing different access plans that...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Increase maximum numbers of columns in an index key from 64 to 120

Db2 has the lowest limit of allowed index columns compared to the competitors.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration