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Allow temp tables and backup before images to handle temp dbspaces which fill up.

If temporary tables/backup before images are spread across multiple temp dbspaces and one fills then put the data/page into the temp dbspaces which have space.This would stop backups/jobs failing.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add other existing summary functions to the Custom Tables interface

In the IBM SPSS Statistics Community, a user has noted that the UVALIDN is not displayed as a choice for a summary function in the Custom Tables user interface, even though other unweighted summary functions are presented there. The IBM SPSS Stati...
10 months ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Submitted

Increase field and column for WORKSTATION_TRAN and CLIENT_APPLNAME

We would like that CQM’s “WORKSTATION TRAN” field and the corresponding column “WORKSTATION_TRAN” in the CQM_SUMM_METRICS table can span the full name. The CLIENT_APPLNAME in DSN_STATEMNT_TABLE is declared varchar(255) FOR MIXED DATA and that woul...
10 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Stored Procedure support for Open Transactions and Tables used by these regarding Integrated Synchronization

Once in a while we will se a large delay in Integrated Synchronization because of bad applications not doing commit or doing rollback of large transactions. Sometimes we have to do manual intervention and remove a table before we get out of the si...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow the ability to query the metadata stored from data discovery - or provide canned reports

Our data stewards have to filter through thousands of tables and columns to determine authoritative data that we want to ingest into our Unified Data Fabric we are building in Cloud Object Storage. Having he ability to query output from data disco...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Ability to create BigSQL table from a single environment (i.e. QA) against parquet files stored in two different Cloud Object Storage (i.e. QA and PROD)

We create a number of simulated test data in our QA environment COS with BigSQL tables and Data Virtualization. Before upgrading from CP4D 3.0 to CP4D 3.5, we ran some simulated test BigSQL queries in our QA environment. Now that our QA has been u...
over 4 years ago in Db2 1

Add a Feature to Replicate Microseconds Portion of Timestamp

We use IIDR CDC on z/OS for replication using DB2 data on z/OS as the source and a flat file on a non-z/OS platform as the target. We have encountered a situation where the microseconds portion of the timestamp value on a DB2 z/OS table is not ret...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Add ALTER COLUMN options to modify numeric column length and allow rename column names for ((bi)temporal) column organized tables

Db2’s capabilities to perform schema changes on any form of ((bi)temporal) column organized tables lacks behind it’s row organized counterparts. This prevents effective database schema evolution and therefore limits the use of column organized tab...
about 3 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

CDC engine for DB2 LUW : Getting support for range partitioned, MDC, RCT tables out of the grey zone

Since CDC 11.3.3 there is a documentation page in knowledge center which explicitly states that range partitioned, range clustered tables and partitioned table will not be replicated by CDC for DB2 LUW. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

InsteadOF SQL

It is common in the database world (DB2 but all the others I have worked with are the same) to have a separate product installed that generates code and submits it to the database for processing. Eventually, you will encounter SQL that doesn't per...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration