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CDC for DB2 LUW - Refresh "RS" record is out of order - add DB2 Parameter CPU_PARALLELISM in CDC

When performing a Refresh to a DB2 LUW Target, then there is a record with Entry Type "RS" written to the target table, before the data records follow up with Entry Types "RR" only. The background of the first artificial "RS record" is to be able ...
over 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Provide "bkill -C 'some comment' jobid" Comment Message in RTM's grid_jobs and grid_jobs_finished tables

We will be doing automated killing of workload in 2022, and now that LSF provides the 'bkill -C' option, we would like that Kill message to be stored in RTM for auditing the reasons why jobs were killed by automation.
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Based upon the data collected from the 'gridperf' binary, keep a table of events type type 'mbdreconfig' & 'mbdrestart' and present in RTM

This is important as we don't often time capture a restart or a reconfig, it could even be as a result of a binary that is segfaulting and being restarted by LIM. It would be nice to be able to track these similar to the table below: MariaDB [cac...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Enhance database_purge_cluster.php to have an 'all' option

This --clusterid=all would remove any clusters not currently found in the grid_clusters table. So, the deletes would look something like: DELETE FROM some_table WHERE clusterid NOT IN (SELECT clusterid FROM grid_clusters) Also, the help on this ...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

I would like to make multiple selections in an attribute and have those values present in the attribute value field as an array

The current architecture does not allow a user to make multiple selections either from a dropdown or checkbox. I would like to make multiple selections in a string enumeration/lookup table attribute and have those values present in the attribute v...
about 5 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

[Copy] Support mixed row/column environments without requiring CUR_COMMIT=ON

We have recently run into a problem when we enable Cur_commit because of the locking behavior expected by some applications (they expect blocking). Therefore, we have to disable CC, but then that app cannot use blu. We want to give our plant the a...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add support for newly added functionality in Oracle 12.2: collations for columns

Case-Insensitive DatabaseOracle Database supports case-insensitive collations. By applying such collations to SQL operations, an application can perform string comparisons and matching in a case-insensitive way, independent of the language of the ...
about 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Online ALTER TABLE ability to rename column; change nullability; drop col.; etc.(RIMS)

Customer wants ALTER TABLE to be more robust. Specifically, the ability to rename a table's column, drop a column, change nullibility and other unsupported attributes. � To accomplish this now the table must be recreated and repopulated, which i...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DPF IXF Format(RIMS)

On DPF only, you can't Load a multi-partition table from an exported file with an IXF format. We've run into this a couple of times when we had to save off data before dropping/recreating a table. I can understand that there may be something in th...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Online Table move RI(RIMS)

We'd like to submit the following requirements for the online table move utility based on 9.7 beta testing. 1. Support of moving tables that have RI on them. Rob Lemeiux
almost 11 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered