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Functions to initialize replication _DURING_UPDATING_ source DB are needed for IMS replication

Functions to initialize replication _DURING_UPDATING_ source DB are needed for IMS replication (IIDR for IMS) in case of failing to continue replication, especially due to inconsistency between source and target DBs. (just like "FULLREFRESH" of II...
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Knox support in File Connector

Have the knox support in the file connector stage reading delimited file or orc file.
about 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Add retry logic to DSNTPSMP

Allow retry logic in DSNTPSMP. User's may receive Abend S213 RC 30 on the DBRM, loadlib, or sourcelib when the function is rebuilding a non-native SQL Procedure. See the PMR for references to additional informational APARs. Within DSNTPSMP, there ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Single Consistent Tool for Defining and Administering QRep Subscriptions

Consistent and comprehensive client tools are required for defining, administering and operating queue replication. Today the Replication Center and Replication Dashboard exist, and there are some functions that neither of these support and have t...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

read text files with carriage returns in parallel jobs

PARALLEL job's Sequential File Stage throws an error reading a .csv file that contains a carriage return inside a char/varchar field. There is no option to read the data within a parallel job. SERVER job's Sequential File Stage has the column opti...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

V12-CERT-2017 - Stop predicates in Range-list index scan (Accesstype NR).

Range-list index scan is a very efficient access for SQL Pagination. Whatever we use DB2 11 Syntax: Where ((Col1 = ? AND Col2 >?) OR Col1 > ? ORDER BY Col1, Col2 Or DB2 12 Syntax: Where (Col1, Col2) > ( ?, ?)ORDER BY Col1, Col2 In both ca...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Change to memory management algorithm

We use Change Data Capture in several project in our company.We identified a serious problem regarding memory management algorithm. Once a week we have a batch of jobs performing many modifications to replicated tables. This workload is characteri...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Change definition of the "_day_of_week" function for Sybase IQ

The "_day_of_week" function as defined for the Sybase IQ DBMS does not accurately account for the following two internal IQ connection properties: connection_property ('first_day_of_week')connection_property ('date_first_day_of_week') The current ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CASE with EXISTS in UPDATE returns SQL0582N, which is inconsistent behavior with db2 z/OS

db2 "update test_tab set c1=case when exists (selectc2 from test_tab where c2=1) then 'A' else 'B' END" DB21034E The command was processed as an SQL statement because it was not a valid Command Line Processor command. During SQL processing it retu...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Support compilation of PL/I and COBOL programs without an active DB2 connection

The compilation of PL/I and COBOL programs on the z/OS mainframe is possible without an active database connection.This does not work on the AIX platform, which requires a database connection during compilation and a DB user withsufficient privile...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration