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Support spanned unload of XML columns

Although the documentation and the error message content if you try to do this suggests that this is possible, it isn't. We would like XML to be supported with spanned unloads just as LOB columns are today (and have been supported in the core IBM ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Productize the grid tool kit with in InfoSphere information Server

Productize the grid tool kit with in InfoSphere information Server Basically this request should go with IIS -General (entire Suite) .
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Remove NetBIOS calls from Cognos BI

After much investigation, we have confirmed that Cognos BI uses NetBIOS when authenticating to an AD namespace using the UPN attribute. This should be changed to use DNS only.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

MOVETB feature (FL 508) with DROP tablespace option enabled

The MOVETB option(with FL 508) has a shortcoming of not providing an option of DROP tablespace for the one which has moved ALL the tables from the source tablespace. Currently, we are forced to DROP the source TS separately outside of the generate...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Automatic Archive Log Pruning when Non-Db2 Snapshots are used

Db2 on Cloud Pak for Data, OpenShift, k8s (a.k.a Db2U) primarily relies on k8s or Velero Volume Snapshots. However, Log archiving is enabled by default in Db2U. Therefore, even when automatic log pruning is enabled, since the backup happens outsid...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

When grid values are shown as percentages. Compute variances by subtracting the percentage rather than underlying number.

We would like to be able to use the base functionality of showing values of a cube view as percentages and subsequently correctly calculate a variance between those percentages.
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Performance issues when trying to open menu-window by right clicking

We noticed that trying to open the menu-window by right clicking for example on the table shown in attached pictures, the system takes a long time to show the menu-window. Looking for the root cause, during our tests we monitored the performances ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Increase Number of AD User Groups that OKTA can pass to Cognos Analytics

The issue is with the actual number of AD user groups that OKTA can pass through to Cognos. We have 321 AD user groups at Mattel and the current OKTA limit is 100. This issue is delaying our migration to the IBM Cognos Cloud. We need the following...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Install InfoSphere Data Replication Agent on Azure SQL Database

User is migrating his database to Azure and they need to replicate data between MS-SQL Server (source) and Azure SQL Database (target).
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Not under consideration

Make XML tablespaces more portable

Currently, there are 3 different internal structures that Db2 uses for the implicitly created table inside an XML tablespace: 3 columns, 5 columns with the START_TS/END_TS fields as BINARY(8), and 5 columns with the START_TS/END_TS fields as BINAR...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration