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Object search screen - lengthen space for object names

Currently, the length of a table name or similar object is limited to 18 characters. This is an outdated standard since Db2 can accept much longer names. The pain point is that it's difficult to view or search for tables and impossible to copy/pas...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Run History Overview per Report View

In Version 10 it was possible to take a look in to the run history in the properties of a report view. There you can see e.g. the last 5 runtimes in a table.In Verison 11 you have to go on a saved report output and then you see the run history of ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Write CAM-AAA-0036 error messages to COGIPF_ACTION table.

User login errors associated to Schedules are not written to the COGIPF_ACTION table. This is related to APAR PI50224 ERROR MESSAGE NOT BEING WRITTEN TO AUDIT DATABASE We would like to see the error message "CAM-AAA-0036 Unable to authenticate bec...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include milliseconds in any TIMESTAMP column. The datatype supports it, IBM, please value it.

There are many TIMESTAMP columns within the OperationalConsole application that do not have milliseconds valued and this makes is very difficult to get accurate timings. Here are a couple of examples, in the DSODB.JobRun table, CREATIONTIMESTAMP h...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

ibm i series: replication partitioned tables

Be able to setup replication with CDC, source an destination for IBM i series for source an targert partitiones tables. Refer to the case TS009759512.
about 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

New Function UNHEX

New Function UNHEX (name subject to change/negotiation) We have a system where all CHAR columns are defined FOR BIT DATA. It seemed genius at the time to save a few bytes of data, not realizing the negative impact in future maintainability and in ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

CDC - automatically add new column to table mapping.

Enhance the product to when a new column is added to the Source Datastore (DB2), and the column exists in the Target (Oracle), CDC adds the column automatically to the table mapping, without stopping the subscription. Similar to QREP ADDCOL For ex...
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Reduce the size of the field list in pivot table

In pivot table view, if it is configured to show the field list, this part takes up too much space, just for writting the message 'Drag.... message'. This is useless and takes space for real data.
about 5 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration

InformixHQ support for Large tables as part of the 15.0 release

For Informix 15.0, InformixHQ needs to support the creation of large tables through the "Create Table" option and be able to distinguish between small and large tables on the table information page.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Parameter for RECOVER utility to avoid invalidation of RTS-information

We would like a parameter (e.g. KEEP_RTS) for the RECOVER utility to indicate that real-time statistics should not be set to NULL. After a RECOVER we need to run a REBUILD of any indexes that have not been recovered, and the REBUILD utility uses R...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration