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Support Oracle Single Schema for multiple clusters data

In this link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=database-setting-up-external-productionYou have this precondition in the 'Before you begin' section: "For data security, each cluster should have a different database schema to...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

inactive party contact methods – performance issue

We are maintaining history in the main tables only as we are end dating and adding new records for any demographics change. We have observed in Performance testing environment few Parties are having 500+ end dated record for Contact methods and 4 ...
about 2 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

DB2 to add support for alter table without going on need for reorg immediately and allow full access (read,write,alter...etc)

After setting compatibility vector to ORA, we expect alter table to not affect read/write access. In our test, we see that after dropping even a single column, table goes in reorg_pending = Y status and we can not use reorg inplace to continue ins...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Recover Statistics based on Statistic History Tables

In most cases an up-to-date RUNSTATS will result in better execution plans and SQL performance. But there are also cases, where new statistics result in worser execution plans and performance. For static SQL we have many possibilities to control t...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Insert Subtotals in PAW like in Pivot Table

It would be very helpful if we can create a subtotal in PAW when we have multiple row dimensions. Please see attached Excel book for example. Someone mentioned about this idea in 2018 (see post "Show sub totals in PAX and PAW similar to Pivot tabl...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow role based access of specific hierarchies, specs and lookup tables

Currently different users within our business are able to modify specific hierarchies or attributes. However, just because a user can modify one of those areas does not mean they should be able to access all areas. For example, a marketing user ma...
over 4 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

DSNRXXXX tables userID case sensitive problem

Hello,This enhancement request is referenced to PMR 17878,001,862 . Please review PMR 17878,001,862 . We are using db2 10 for z/OS and external security -RACF- on this system . DB2 user's distributed connection type is JDBC / ODBC. They reach db2 ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Automatic Statistics table exclusion list

We have a 3 billion row table that we would like to remove from AUS selection and manually run statistics as it is failing due to exhausting the 48Gb of sort disk
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Skip REORG evaluation if offline maintenance window equal 1 or 2 hours

Reorg table can be run twice during offline maintenance window. This is not acceptable behavior because it can exhaust the window time on the same table. Secondly, it is also possible to put in queue the same REORG TABLE that will be run the next ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

New message reporting tha...

RTS Temporal tables are defined as UTS/PBG/MAXPART 1. Please provide a message if e.g. 80% of available space is reached and a second message if e.g. 90% are reached. The message should be written once if the threshold is reached. It might be help...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration