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User should be able to use not only technical meta but also business terms which are assigned to technical terms or which are described in order to find some fields/columns when they create ETL jobs or dashboards

This is for function enhancement request, not for bug fix request, but one of my customer requests bellow function enhancement strongly. [request detail] Once User run asset discovery so as to assign business meta against technical asset such as t...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Expand DB2 Profile Wildcard Support to Client Property Parameters

We need DB2 Profile table wildcard support to extend to the client property parameters: CLIENT_APPLNAME, CLIENT_USERID and CLIENT_WRKSTNNAME.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reporting filters to use Prompt Info properties from Framework Manager

We want the filter functionality (not just generated prompts) in Reporting to use the Prompt Info properties - Prompt Type, Display Item Reference, Use Item Reference, and Filter Reference. As we try to move our users off of Query Studio, using Re...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

High logging volume on SYSUTILX during utilities execution

Swiss Re observe up to 50% of the log volume is written for SYSUTILX, which is generally updated on phase changes across utilityexecutions, as well as during checkpoint/commit interval. A deeper analysis shows:- Most of the records being logged co...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered
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User, who created a view, should also be allowed to drop and use the view

Merged
As a DBA I can create a view for other people, but if the view was not correct or should be changed, the DBA cannot drop the view, nor he can use the view, e.g. for select, also he has select privilege on the underlying tables.
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Option to dictate behaviour regarding deadlock victim selected on deadlocks involving DDL ALTERs

In true 24*7 production environments there is an increasing expectation that simple(on the face of it) DDL changes should be able to break-in concurrent with application workload. In the case of high-arrival rate transactions even at the quietest ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Show sub totals in PAX and PAW similar to Pivot table

We need the ability to to somehow configure planning analytics (for excel) to show sub totals for the consolidations for selected dimensions in the rows? To be more precise: Let's assume we selected two dimensions in the rows and want to see the s...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

RESTORE SYSTEM should support log apply across DSN1COPY and vendor utilities

RESTORE SYSTEM can fail in log apply when there was a DSN1COPY or vendor utility within the log apply range. This occurs because RESTORE SYSTEM uses pageset control log records to determine that a LOG NO utility had been run, and neither DSN1COPY ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow Db2 z/OS REORG with NOCHECKPEND

Customer is using the REORG utility to cull or reduce rows from a table. However, if the table in questions has RI relationships with other tables, these related tables may go into a CHECK PENDING state. If the REORG can be run with a NOCHECKPEND ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Modeler Flow needs to be able to update or delete & insert records into the DB table

In our customer's usecases, we export data to DB tables as several way. 1. Insert (simply appending) 2. Update 3. Update and insert 4. Delete all records and insert 5. Create new table and insert (with schema settings) SPSS Modeler's "database e...
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler 3 Delivered