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Set Encrypt=false when using MS SQL Database

Since MS JDBC Driver 10.2, the default behaviour for the JDBC driver is to set encrypt=true; this causes issues with Cognos Configuration as the error messages when using the JDBC driver suggests that when the setting is SSL Encryption Enabled is ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Delivered

Dynamic Statement Cache should have information from the field ClientInfo

We use JPA to generate Dynamic SQL in Db2 z/OS. The application ID i sent in the field ClientInfo which helps us to identify the processing. SMF records, Omegamon, Query Monitor and other products contain this information, but not the Dynamic Stat...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Detect corrupted pointers in the free chain and avoid referencing them

We are currently using a USERMOD which detects corrupted pointers in the free chain before referencing them and, if detected, automatically truncates the free chain to avoid referencing bad addresses. If this can be generalized and implemented wit...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Delivered

Set APPLICATION_NAME and CLIENT_APPLNAME property on QMF tool level to easily identify QMF tool database connection

I have downloaded fresh new version of QMF for Workstation v13.1 on Windows 10. This issue is also present in previous versions, so not a regression on latest version. 1. Start QMF tool. 2. Connect to any Db2 database. I have connected to Db2 v11....
about 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered

Microsoft Excel Integration Version

The export functionality in OpenPages is to a Microsoft Excel .xls which limits the content to be within 255 columns and ~65000 rows. For objects with large data counts as well as a large number of fields this limits the ability to seamlessly extr...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Delivered

This is a request for CDC/IIDR to provide an augmented timestamp, using an ordinal/sequence number on top of the Db2 LUW second granularity....to give better ordering for JMS targets.

FedEx initially benefits but later on all companies doing replication from mainframe platform to LUW. CDC/IIDR retrieves timestamps (via @timstamp) from the source DBMS. When the source is Db2/z, for instance , we return their timestamp which is...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Add lsb.params setting to limit the number of times a job can be redispatched upon either a pre-exec failure of job initilization failure

We currently have jobs that will bounce from host to host either based upon a pre-exec failure, or a job initialization failure. This can impact > 500 hosts and cause an increase in MBD memory use. It would be nice to have a setting such as: MA...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

Allow statement level hints on SQL in stored procedure packages

It is a huge pain to hint specific statements contained within stored procedure packages. Currently you will get this message if trying to bind query for a statement level hint on a procedure package: DSNT281I -DBP1 BIND QUERY FOR QUERYNO = 59988 ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Delivered

PAW user profile settings

Based on our experiences we would like to propose improving the PAW user profile settings by two possibilities: Change the number of characters to indent TAB-key By default TAB-key currently indents only two characters in editors. Developers would...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Restrict asset download on CP4Daas projects

To allow CP4DaaS administrators to control download permissions for project assets. This would allow administrators to disable asset downloading whenever applicable (e.g., sensitive data assets).
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Delivered