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Add Readonly Database Connection Support

It would be beneficial to have a readonly connection when accessing the database from third party software. Many products provide the ability to connect via JDBC but they also have the ability to make changes. Example LibreOffice Base can be setup...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Remove ISPF restriction preventing the actual count of objects returned from using the SARG command

Please remove the ISPF restriction that is preventing the following in Db2 Admin Tool (rejected in DB2ZADMTL-I-85) - I have used panel ADB21K and the count as an example below, but the misleading count occurs on other panels when you have used the...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Hierarchy processing too slow

Please refer to Case TS000137042 for details. As IBM already knows MunichRe is having major issues with the performance of the TM1 system, especially with the performance of hierarchies (in reporting as well as in processing). This ticket is for r...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Alter (global) VARIABLE command

It is not possible to ALTER a global variable, it is necessary to do DROP + re-CREATE it. And previously we must DROP all the objects that depends on it: PROCEDURE, FUNCTION, TRIGGER, VIEWS ..., and the packages are marked as invalid. After havin...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Move DISRT into primary command and remove 10 object foreground limit

There are various pain points: Here is a scenario. I wish to identify tablespaces that are in a restricted state and either repair them or start them access force. I get a list of tablespaces which are normally created by listing the tables in a s...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PLanning Analytics for Excel Interface/ Set Editor Enhancement Requests

1. In Exploration view, there is no way that users can "turn off" the working/refresh of the view they have pulled. Can this be developed similar to the cube view whereby auto-recalculate can be turned off such that users can select their dim elem...
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable drop of more than one foreign key at a time

I want to drop 2 foreign keys on a table. I type the 'AL' line command next to the table and go to panel ADB21TA. I choose DROP FOREIGN KEY and go to panel ADB21TAH. I put a '?' in the Constraint field and go to panel ADB21TRI. In my example I hav...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Control/Force RTS Fabrication

There exists a fundamental issue whereby if a query predicate is > HIGH2KEY then the optimiser always estimates cardinality of 1.For date/time related columns this is an issue as there may always be data beyond HIGH2KEY even immediately after r...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Allow Multi-line Labels on Map Visualisation

Thanks for the Map Visualisation. Instead of the label for the map points being compressed into a single line, I would like to be able to produce the map labels in the form of an address, which each component of the address on a separate line, so ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reflect the actual count of objects returned from using the SARG command

I have used panel ADB21K and the count as an example below, but the misleading count occurs on other panels when you have used the SARG panel to filter. On panel ADB21K, I have 117 packages listed against a table. The count is shown at the top rig...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration