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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

Add color for Min, Mid, Max in Bullet Charts on Dashboards

Reports support this feature but dashboards do not. Add this feature to bullet visual in dashboards.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Add support for HSM messages from SLB to Recover Expert

DB2 SLB utility introduced support for providing the associated HSM messages to the utility's SYSPRINT via zparm UTILS_HSM_MSGDS_HLQ. This high-level qualifier must also be registered in HSM via a SETSYS command. Data sets that use this high-le...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Delivered

Support for common table expression (CTE)

Support for common table expression (CTE)
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Support custom installed Python libraries

DO for DSX seems to not support custom installed Python libraries.I installed a Python library for performance profiling in the notebook for my optimization model using '!pip install yappi'.The notebook runs fine, but when importing as model, the ...

Telemetry for LSF scheduler performance

LSF struggles in large farms with many running pending jobs and thousands of users in fairshare tree. LSF's struggle with heavy query activity is well documented. It would be great if LSF can provide telemetry on its own performance and what speci...
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Delivered

Full optimization modeling editor inside DO for DSX

The DO for DSX model editor needs to be on par with other optimization model editors (such as our own CPLEX Studio) to remain relevant and for people to buy in. It should include built-in capabilities also to do sensitivity analysis, monitor model...

Support LOB data types for DB2 BLU

DB2 BLU still doesn't support LOB related data types. Some existing databases in DB2 or other RDBMS, such as Oracle, need to be migrated to DB2 BLU and contain some tables with LOB data types. Without LOB data types support for DB2 BLU, they have ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration / Data Types 0 Delivered

Omegamon DB2 to monitor DB2/IRLM in reliable manner

Omegamon DB2 can slow down or even stop reporting IRLM information when IRLM becomes very busy. This is the most important time for Omegamon DB2 to report this information as it's the one tool to help SMEs recover DB2 normal operations. Without th...
about 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 2 Delivered