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Change OBDRX2AC Tracking From OBD Level To TS Partition Level

Currently after an ALTER ADD COLUMN has been executed on a partitioned TS , all subsequent reorgs go through the compression cycle until all partitions have been reorged within the same modify recovery range. For very large TSs with many partition...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

search for strings within the SQL Statements in the SQL Text Column

For us, the web UI is the main interface to interact with Db2 Query Monitor. A functionality should be implemented that makes it possible to search for character strings in the list of displayed sql queries (e.g. search for the table name). The ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

New Access Type to Support Table Changes

Problem statement/ pain point: When making changes to Db2 tables there are times when you need to put the table space into a read only status to prevent update from occurring but allow the users the most time with the table being changed. The prob...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Limit the number of Alerts being sent from CAE

Today, we have alerts set up for -805, -904 and -913. Being able to get a -904 alert and act on it before the customer/user calls is huge. We do parse the message looking for the reason code and if it's critical, Db2 Support is paged. However, the...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Specify User Exit routine name when defining IMS-DB virtual table

In Japan, most IMS user customers, especially in financial sector, have their roll-your-own program modules called "DBI" (database interface), and database access must be made through DBI always. DBI provides, for example, data compression/de-comp...
over 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Labelling a column changes access path

With table TB1(COL1, COL2, COL3, COL4) and index IX1(COL1, COL2, COL3), query: SELECT COL1, COL2, VARCHAR(COL3) COL3, COL4 FROM TB1 WHERE COL1 = ? AND COL2 = ? ORDER BY COL1, COL2, COL3; requires sort even though the order by is following the in...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Apply Copybook when defining Db2 for z/OS virtual table

(This IDEA item was written based on a customer requirement revealed in DVM POC test at customer site.) So far, customer cannot apply COBOL copybook (assembler DSECT, PL/I DCL statements, etc. also) when defining DBMS (RDBMS) virtual table includi...
over 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Order of Dimension Structure Items in the Tree Structure Report

The order of the items of the Dimensions in the generated Tree Structure Report. We have reordered the imported dimensions on the reorder tab, but the new order does not reflect accordingly on Tree Structure Report. Currently, it is using the crns...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Delivered

Wrap tables

Create a new type of table based on the size or on the time.create table packagevent (.... ) with history based 1 year on event_timestamp / 1Gb. It could be an ITC table. The oldest data / extent are automatically reused when new data is added and...
about 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enable dynamic selection of Parameterset Valuefiles in Sequences

I want to have the possibility to dynamically choose which Valuefile of a Parameterset i use when starting a Job/Sequence inside a Sequence. Currently you can only Propagate the Valuefile choosen when starting the Calling Sequence or choose a fixe...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration