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Snowflake Connector Error handling

1) We encountered an issue while using the insert or update option. The continue on error option does not work and the job fails if it encounters bad data. We opened a case with IBM. There is no reject capture mechanism. Workaround: Two step solut...
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 6 Not under consideration

extend MERGE syntax to allow Common Table Expressions (CTE)

The MERGE SQL statement is a new favourite SQL statement. But I also like to use Common Table Expressions (CTE). CTE can be used in other type of SQL (mostly SELECT) but CTE is not allowed with MERGE What is my idea? Allow MERGE to use CTE. I...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Eliminate Reorgs failing with S513 & IEC146I 513-04 when reorging LOBs

The cause of the S513 error is due to the DB2 reorg utility trying to write two image copies in parallel (one for BASE and one for LOB) when a BASE UTS with LOB TS is being REORG’d and the specified template for image copy datasets has the STACK Y...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Display of replication throughput per subscription

Today Q Apply stores detailed performance statistics on queue level. This idea raises the request to store certain Q Apply throuput statistics (like rows_processed) on subscription level. Background: Today it is very difficult / sometime impossibl...
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Allow Db2 columnar table replication via CDC

Truist has obtained 3M+ of Data Replication entitlements in Q1 of 2025 to replicate data from Exadata and Db2 WH to Snowflake. Db2 WH table are all in columnar format and Truist would like for the tables to stay the same way. Our current workaroun...
6 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Not under consideration

RDS Hierarchies - Child and Parent Duplicates

We have a requirement to load states/provinces/districts (children) for all countries (parent). The same state could exist in multiple countries. e.g., BADEN in Germany and BADEN in Switzerland. Both are valid, but CP4D sees them as duplicates. Th...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

OPTIM/HPU INTERFACE CHANGE TO ALLOW USE OF MULTIPLE IMAGE-COPY DATASETS

This is an enhancement request for OPTIM TDM for z/OS (FMID HAEYB70). OPTIM TDM/DP currently allows users to inform only one image-copy dataset (taken in another DB2 subsystem) in the process of extracting and converting data. In our environment w...
about 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Dynamic (Relative) Default Value for dropdown widget on dashboards

we are looking to set a default value on the dropdown widget canvas or the standard filter and we want that default value to be based on current _month or last_refresh_date from a database table.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

LOAD a TABLE with WHEN / DISCARD

When loading a table with WHEN and DISCARD, rows that do not qualify because of the WHEN condition get "discarded" and:- discard file is populated with them- it is impossible to distinguish records discarded because of the WHEN clause and e.g. the...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Enable defined limits on sqltrace

We would like to see the ability to add limits when enabling sqltrace to limit it to only trace by specific requirements. The basic one, which this alone would make a huge difference would be the ability to list one or more tables and only have it...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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