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Support JSON-Functions

More and more architecture decisions turning into service oriented architectures. In this case data is not available in relational tables anymore but eg. JSON files. In data modules JSON functions can be implemented to show report authors data in ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Index and index partition's DSSIZE

Information about indexes and index partitions should show DSSIZE. Today, the only way to see index DSSIZE and index partition's individually set DSSIZE is to type DDL as a line command before the index name, or type B on the command line when the...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

Enhanced Widget Connections in Dashboards

The request behind this idea is to have additional control over how dashboard visualizations respond to each other via widget connections. It is understood that additional connections can be created to group respective visualizations together but ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Instrument workfile high-watermarks in ACCTG

Instrument IFCID 0003 and IFCID 0148 counter(s) to show the maximum amount of Workfile used by a thread (4K blocks total, or separate by tables/indexes, or separate by 4K/32K Workfiles -- implementation choice.) It is difficult to manage Workfile ...
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

LOAD should not be restarted when Apply fails during SET INTEGRITY

When setting up Replication for a DB2 Table for the first time Apply will use a LOAD FROM Cursor to do an initial copy of the tables data. If there are constraints or generated columns defined for that table Apply will issue a SET INTEGRITY comman...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Online index rebuild

We need command tool in Informix >>-ALTER INDEX--index--REBUILD------------>< | | '-ONLINE-' working like: REBUILD INDEX online utility in DB2 or ALTER INDEX index REBUILD ONLINE in Oracle or REINDEX [INDEX|TABLE] in PostgreSQL
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

DB2 should optimize queries adequately when are missing or out of date

In V12 it was intended to extend the NPGTHRSH to empty tables and to tables with missing stats. The idea was to pick up the appropriate index which means: if a sort can be avoided choose this one, otherwise pick up the index, which has the most ma...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

For Dynamic SQL that is stabilized, Add the SDQ_STMT_ID

For Dynamic SQL statements listed in Query Monitor, it is important to know if the SQL statement is/was Stabilized. Listing the SDQ_STMT_ID that is assigned to the Query in both the online monitor and downloaded into CQM_SUMM_METRICS can help with...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Delivered

Introduce or Change Reorg for managing commits when generating Identity column values during the Reorg

When an identity column is added to an already existing and populated table, the table is put into a Reorg Pending status and thus unavailable to the applications. When the Reorg is run to resolve the status it generates the identity column values...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Allow capability to ALTER the UPDATES column of SYSCOLUMNS

DB2 10 for z/OS eliminates the PARTKEYU system parameter and always behaves as if PARTKEYU was set to YES. However, tables created in DB2 for z/OS Version 5 and earlier can not take advantage of this capability unless the tables are dropped and re...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered