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Advanced formatting in PAW cube viewer

For the user it is hard to see if she/he is on a consolidated level or not, as the formatting is the same. It would be helpful to be able to use: Special formatting (e.g. bold) for consolidations / different levels in crosstab / table Special for...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Allow modification of column-organized columns

Currently, in column-organized tables you cannot alter or rename columns and you even cannot drop columns. The only allowed operation is to add a column. This renders the column-based-tables pretty useless because in a normal environment, it must ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

BIFs ENRYPT_DATAKEY and DECRYPT_DATAKEY* should be able to check with user ID of ACEE

The BIFs ENRYPT_DATAKEY and DECRYPT_DATAKEY* are very useful for encrypting and decrypting data (e.g., passwords) that are to be stored in DB2 tables. The programmer does not have to worry about the keys used, as they are stored in the ICSF. When ...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ITC tables for pureScale

ITC are very useful to have table that have large batch deletes on it. Then space reclaim is a quite easy and fast task using REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS ONLY.
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Audit table for datasets

Want to be able to monitor dataset growth/decline of time. e.g. -size -number of rows -number of columns
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Add BIGINT support for source/target DB2 for i

BIGINT type is supported into DB2 for i for years. Why doesn't support BIGINT by CDC ? Indeed, currently everyone use BIGINT type to create colums key (primary or forreign keys). In fact, We can't use these values into filters or derived columns. ...
8 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Enhancing the table or crosstab visiual

When having a table that contains a column that's a parent for others for examples it merge this cell in way making it hard to read, additionally i can't control the column width size. This affects in one of big telecommunication client experience.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Support for database images in Cognos Reports

Our oracle database tables include images stored as BLOB or VARBINARY datatypes. We would like to show these images in a Cognos List Report, to be displayed with rest of data. This functionality needed by multiple county departments.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Expand IFCID 258 to include the last available partition (based on MAXPARTITIONS) of a partitioned table spaces.

IBM already produces IFCID 258 when an extent is taken. Would IBM may consider the expansion into the last available partition to be a noteworthy event or either inform the MAXPARTITION value. So, the percentage of available partitions can be calc...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve the usability of the masking function

According to the manual, column masking has incompatibility with some SQL functions that we use a lot. In our environment, we have many abends with SQLCODE = -20478, example: SELECT CASE WHEN ST_EMAIL LIKE 'MARIA%' THEN 'OK' ELSE 'NOT OK' ENDFROM ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Delivered

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