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Improve visibility of choosen access path after rebind

We are using Db2 AI for z/OS with and without validation of the provided optimizations in SQL Optimization.For the option "with validation" you can see in the details table from the improvement which access path would be choosen after the rebind.I...
4 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

Generate table definition structure using the db2 catalogue without the need to unload

It would be good if you could go to the db2 catalogue and use a line command at either database level or tablespace level and generate a SYSPUNCH file containing the table definition structure/s without the need to run an unload which can be more ...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

CP4D Audit: Ability to trace activities related to assets’ execution for the Watson Studio service (and the CP4D Platform)

CP4D Audit: Ability to trace activities related to assets’ execution for the Watson Studio service (and the CP4D Platform) Client would like to be able to trace the activities related to the execution of an asset. With reference to the Watson Stud...
8 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Remote storage and datalake tables for AIX

The feature is already available in Db2 for a while, but only supported in (Intel) Linux environments. IBM talks about the benefits of those features and related system architectures, but the feature is not available to many of our large enterpris...
12 months ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

There should be a table like SYSUTILITIES that contains Db2 Commands that have been issued

There should be a table like SYSUTILITIES , say SYSCOMMANDS, that contains Db2 Commands that have been issued, including the full text of the Db2 command that was issued.
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 16 Future consideration

Revoke impact report generated regardless of dependencies

Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS has an option to generate revoke impact report. If there is a dependency on authorisation you are trying to revoke which prevents the revoke, it displays a message (since PH65207): Can't revoke EXECUTE on &...
5 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Segmentation data extraction

Current situation: the IBM Optim v11.7.0.0 tool performs record extraction in database engines in bulk on the configured tables. In this process, a "select *" query, without WHERE clause, is executed on all the records contained in the table. The ...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 1 Submitted

Ability to perform create indexes on a table in parallel

Typically we need to (re-)create multiple indexe’s on a table. Right now this process has to be performed sequentially - index after index - which can take a very considerable time. We would like to see a feature to able to CREATE multiple INDEXes...
7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

IKC DQ Projects - Rule bundling scheduling multiple jobs when binded to multiple source tables

IKC rule bundling critical functionality for scheduling IKC DQ rules Yes, rule Bundling pre-requisite is multiple rules in 1 bundle should use same source tables But we now noticed that bundling is not working with rules which are binded to more t...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

When executing an ALTER TABLE <table> ROTATE PARTITION please do NOT invalidate dependent packages

ALTER TABLE <table> ROTATE PARTITION is described as an ONLINE schema change. However in our 24/7 environment with tables being used frequently around the clock we cannot execute ALTER TABLE <table> ROTATE PARTITION on our most heavily...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review