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table functions to get query-list and table-information

Provide also DB2 zOS table functions which returns the same informations as the stored procedures, at least for sysproc.accel_get_queries & sysproc.accel_get_tables_info At the moment, you can only use stored procedures to get the query-list o...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Save and (restore) access plan for dynamic and Statis SQL

Sometime after maintenance, or index/stats change, certain SQL can pick a bad access path. It would be nice to be able to save access path and force db2 to pick old access path. We just had very painful process after V11 migration. When access pat...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Update last modified date when parent child association changes

Every night we send extract of delta records to downstream systems for each object in JUNO (Incident, Issue, Action and etc) The delta records are identified based on Last modification date. As Last modification date is not getting updated for fol...
about 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Not under consideration

Different Utility options for Implementation and Backout

A-HA is raised for the tool to provide the choice for different utility options for implementation and Recovery. At the moment the utility options apply to BOTH implementation and recovery job stream. There may be a need for choosing a Reorg when ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Filter using comparison with Unicode character field

The handling of multibyte character set data has changed with V11.3.3 and some features which worked fine with V6.1 are no longer working correctly. In the present case the customer has row filtering based on a comparison of a column with a string...
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Break sets

The new report tool allows you to define when pulling over dimensions if they are to be individual members or a set. We would think that we should be able to make a change by clicking an option to break the set, rather than having to remove the se...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Record Conditional Image Copies That Are Bypassed In SYSIBM.SYSCOPY

We have a requirement to take daily image copies and to prove the copies were taken. When Db2 bypasses conditional copies from CHANGELIMIT (because NO CHANGE LIMIT MET) or from FULL NO (because TS CONTAINED NO CHANGED PAGES), Db2 does not record i...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

need to fix security breaks in Apache web server

Our internal security scan has found couple of Breaks related to configuration in Apache web server used for CA v11.1.1. Our question is, do we have plan to fix them in future releases or we will need to submit enhancement request in order to get ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect

Switch DNS server for ALL Quick /Exploration reports to backup if prod fails

Assuming I am running a PAL/PAW/PAW setup and at the same time I have a backup system which is doing an hourly backup of my entire production system. If my production system gets corrupted, then I can immediately switch over to my backup setup so ...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for ON UPDATE CASCADE

Use case: There is a table called release with a primary key id of type integer and an additional column name (the release name). And further tables (e.g. table_x, table_y, …) with a reference (foreign key) to release.id. The working tables are ta...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration