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Infosphere CDC for Db2® for z/OS - A new option like "alter_table_data_capture_flag_allow_turn_off"

We have tables in simultaneous replication with different products: CDC and SQL Replica both from IBM.Unfortunately, the CDC Z/OS does not have the ‘alter_table_data_capture_flag_allow_turn_off’ parameter that the ‘remote z/os source’ does and the...
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Allow a join of a temporal table with an archive-enabled table.

Allowing us to join a temporal table with an archive-enabled table would allow us to take advantage of both features. As is we will have to choose one or the other.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Improve performance of SET INTEGRITY command through use of (intra partition) parallelism

SET INTEGRITY does currently not make use of intrapartition parallelism. SET INTEGRITY (with "checked" option) for large tables and/or tables with many foreign key and/or check constraints consumes a large amount of time while the table is not acc...
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Delivered

Add support for Db2 timestamp(12) data type in DataStage and CP4D

The Db2 data type timestamp(12) (timestamp with a precision up to 12 digits of the second) is not supported by DataStage. This data type is used and required for temporal tables in Db2 (LUW) and Db2 for z/OS. Temporal tables are a very helpful fun...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Tolerance for alter table add/drop column for Oracle

We use table -> table replication. If there is a common alter table add column change the replication goes down and we have to update source / target table definition, stopp all subscriptions, have to set a bookmark and after that we are able t...
over 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

BIFs ENRYPT_DATAKEY and DECRYPT_DATAKEY* should be able to check with user ID of ACEE

The BIFs ENRYPT_DATAKEY and DECRYPT_DATAKEY* are very useful for encrypting and decrypting data (e.g., passwords) that are to be stored in DB2 tables. The programmer does not have to worry about the keys used, as they are stored in the ICSF. When ...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Activity event monitor and CGTT

Usually section actuals after being prepared with explain_from_activity and db2exfmt has a section called “Runtime statistics for objects Used in Access Plan”. This section has valuable information for the problem analysis. If a Statement uses Cre...
over 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

enhancements to sysprocedures table and dbschema utility

Currently, there does not appear to be anything in the sysprocedures table to identify which procedures are provided by Informix (system routines) vs those created by users (user routines). The mode column does not appear to address this particula...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Rename column should be possible if View is on table

We encountered that Rename column is not possible if a View esists on the appropriate table. We would like to exploit this new function (Rename Column), but we have views, which does not allow that. We already have a similar requirement MR02141152...
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

new DBlink for cplex OPL optimization studio

Dear developers. I thought that this idea either was already posted or perhaps is considered inside other idea related with ODX, but anyway I do want to ensure that next enhancement to cplex optimization studio get done: until opl 12.6.3. the fetc...
over 7 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 6 Delivered