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Use permanent database for DSNTRVFY rather than implicit database

Each time we run DSNTIJRV, the DSNTRVFY program creates the DSNTRVFY.VALIDATION_TABLE in an implicitly-created database, which the process then leaves hanging around with no objects in it. Both empty databases and implicitly-created databases viol...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Partitioned reads from Google BigQuery should permit selection of column used to generate the partition query

BigQuery database supports partitioning of tables like range partitioning and time partitioning. If the table is already partitioned on the database side, then that particular column will be used to create the partition queries: https://cloud.goog...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Remove the OBID limitations in the workfile database

Aapplication threads that perform OPEN / FETCH / CLOSE many many times in a loop without performing a COMMIT can exhaust the OBID limit and suffer SQLCODE -497 From a recent SR....... We see in the dump a SELECT statement using insensitive scrolla...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Counter dimension mapping in Controller Web import

It should be possible to map counter dimension codes using lookup tables, just like it is currently possible for dim1.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered

Suggest legal member names in DCLGEN dialog

The DCLGEN dialog provides the table name as member name, even though the name might be illegal as membername. In our shop we have underscore characters in tablenames. There is no hint for the developer that this might not work https://bigblue.aha...
over 3 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

The customer would like to know all the related tables associated with an uncommitted Unit of Recovery (UR).

If there is an uncommitted UR (a.k.a transaction) on the Capture side, is there a method for QREP to quickly locate the tables related to the uncommitted UR?
almost 2 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Future consideration

Enable "Handle Numeric Data Errors" for DRDA servers

On the iseries/AS400 it's possible that a table contains non numeric data in a numeric column.In order to allow access to such tables, without getting an exception, there is a "Handle Numeric Data Errors" for OleDB connections:http://www-01.ibm.co...
over 10 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 1 Not under consideration

RTS history table outside DSNDB06

With DB2 12 new function features, IBM added RTS temporal history option. This is an excellent option, considering we used to perform that manually. Unloading and reloading the STATS into a history table. The new option, creates 2 new tables with ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Oracel "select any table" feature in DB2

Customer need a read only user to do the extract in the data warehouse project or to do the monitor. With the 'select any table' privilege , after customer create some new table,that user only have the read only privilege on those new tables.
about 7 years ago in Db2 1 Functionality already exists

assigning Queryno in Native SP SQLs

Hi,Native Stored Procedure SQLs have no Queryno assigned in Plan_table. All SQLs appear as queryno 1 , no matter how many of them specified in SP. It creates inconvenience in researching access path for SQL statement , as well as impossible to ass...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration