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Add optional WHERE condition to MERGE statement

Oracle supports an optional WHERE condition for insert/update/delete operations when using MERGE on the source or target table This could be handy in some situations to skip some rows if the condition is not true.
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

"@ Functions" to SQL Query

SPSS Modeler does not support all the "@ functions" when we want to generate the SQL Query from the stream, for example the @OFFSET function. Thus when there is a node which uses this kind of function the stream is out of "SQL mode" and then is pr...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Alias for REST Services

Db2 REST services, with versioning enabled, sets the first service created via the BIND SERVICE command to be the default service. at this stage the URL and the REST service are in sync and the URL need not reference the version as DB2 will invoke...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Need for multiple database schemas

PMR TS000125312 Starting with MDM v11.0 the installation process does not support different database schema's anymore, which would isolate the MDM Configuration and Management Database tables from the MDM Server database tables.This was supported ...
over 7 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

DB2z Sequencing support in IDAA for surrogate keys

In many data transformation flows, surrogate keys are required for dimension tables for example. One common technique for generating surrogate values is to use database sequences, particularly when utilizing SQL-based transformations. Currently se...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Investment Elimination Template - restrict to accounts on the control table

When entering the investment elimination template/journal for automatic elimination of investments, the parent’s investment side of the investment elimination template is straightforward as the investment account is usually automatically selected ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Add a command to remove a specific retained lock

Under current behavior in a DB2 Data Sharing environment, when a DB2 member crashes and is not able to restart, the application on the other members is stopped by retained locks.In our environment, for some specific applications due to the nature ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Let Physical Detach and Attach Operations on the same table run at the same time

Today there is no timeout on Detach Physical Phase and Attach alter cannot run on the same table at the same time as Detach alter. Some detach alters are taking over 20 hours to finish placing daily partitions at risk of not being created. Also th...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

QMF for Workstation or QMF for Websphere to have inline edit rows/column values and delete row values RFE 120690

In DataQuant a user can run a query against a table and then delete/change a row/column inline. In QMF a user needs to use the Table Editor tool to edit any values and the table editor does not allow for any predicts or data reordering functionali...
over 7 years ago in QMF for z/OS 2 Delivered

Stored-Proc ADMIN_UTL_SCHEDULE: Add a Stop-Condition to continue when RC > 12 occurs

When a Db2-Utility started by Stored-Procl ADMIN_UTL_SCHEDULE abends the Reason-Code is passed back as the Return-Code. This happens for example if REORG fails due to problems with allocating SORTWORK-Datasets, especially for big tables, or when i...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration