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index based restore of a table space from backup image file

Want to restore the contents of a tablespace from a backup.
about 5 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Ordering Table Names and Column Names in Data Modules

When working in framework manager, I am able to sort columns alphabetically which makes the metadata easier for everyone to use. It looks like there isn't a way to do this in Data Modules in CA currently.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

location property exposed in bigquery connector

Is it possibile to consider exposing the location property in the bigquery connector such that a default location can be forced CP4D side? Executing jobs that use the statements SELECT FROM EXTERNAL TABLE while the bigquery database is located in ...
10 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review
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Provide an external interface to check for manual runstats statistics collection

Merged
DB2 currently provides AUTOMATIC STATISTICS COLLECTION as part of automated table maintaince which uses an internal evaluation algorithm to determine the necessity to perform a (then automated) RUNSTATs collection. We are asking for an external me...
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

External Table USING Options

Need to be able to create external table objects using all the "USING" options when writing to the file. The best example is that (VAR)CHAR type objects need to be written with "quoted" values (e.g., 'ABC",'DEF' written to the file instead of ABC,...
10 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

LISTDEF (like) utility

This is required so that the ability to perform various utilities (e.g., REORG) on multiple objects (tablespaces and/or tables) can be performed utilizing a list of objects.
10 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

Need to see virtualized objects in relationship explorer for business term or catalog

We create virtualized tables and develop views based on business requirements. When a virtualized asset is added to the related content of a business term through the enrichment process and published to the catalog, we want to ensure that these vi...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Planned for future release

Requesting an option to control whether the job (high availability load) should run or fail if an accelerator is unavailable

In today's environment, HALOAD job fails if one of the accelerators is unavailable, and it impedes table data refresh on all accelerators in the job. Allowing HALOAD job to continue execution by skipping the unavailable accelerator will mitigate t...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Delivered

DB2 profiles - register START PROFILE and STOP PROFILE commands

Summary: Log all -START PROFILE and -STOP PROFILE commands in a DB2 table, ready to be used for queries onto the history tables. Details: When DB2 profiles are being enabled (SYSIBM.DSN_PROFILE_TABLE.PROFILE_ENABLED='Y'), the next -START PROFILE c...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Track SHRLEVEL info in Utilities history

In Db2 13 utility execution can be recorded in one or two utilities history tables. We are struggling to find all utility executions ran with SHRLEVEL NONE to tell the applications to change their parameters to avoid problems. It is very hard to f...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration