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Request Informix slow queries history

When a user executes a query and the execution time is over x seconds, the SQL text is saved to a database table, along with general statistics like number of times it executes, avg duration, rows retrieve, row sent, etc. This is configured at a d...
about 14 hours ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Make CDC throw an event and bring down the subscription on IBMi CDC agent to ensure it no longer consumes CPU cycles

We understand that if a table has got a DDL change, all subscriptions in which the table is used, have to be updated. But since human mistakes are possible, this high CPU consumption could be prevented if in the continuous mirroring been started a...
2 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Submitted

Enable discard reorganizations on catalog history tables.

Enabling historization for certain catalog tables can result in very large tables that can be difficult to purge, particularly if they are in LOCKSIZE ROW and without LOCK ESCALATION, as is the case, for example, with the SYSIBM.SYSTABSPACESTATS_H...
29 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Add STMT_HASHID2 in IFCID 316

Can you add STMT_HASHID2 (referred in DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE) field to the IFCID 316 record? It would be very handy in identifying normalized SQL statement text(s).
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Need a browse through GUI when configuring Knowledge Catalog using Data Virtualization and configuring data protection rules

Need a browse through GUI when configuring Knowledge Catalog using Data Virtualization and configuring data protection rules. Today, when creating Data Protection rules you need to type the column header names you want to select and it is very err...
3 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Let Capture build the transaction message with non-LOB columns first and LOB columns last instead of in strict column sequence order.

Please consider changing Capture to build transaction messages with all non-LOB data first, then add on the LOB data after all other non-LOB data no matter what the sequence numbers. This would prevent the risk of splitting a message on non-LOB da...

Clear presentation in section_actuals, which part of the plan is currently running

It should be clear in section_actuals which part of the plan has actually "run" Please mark non-accessed lolepops as "-1" , "NA" in the section_actuals column of the activity table (event monitor for activities). Then this can be distinguished fro...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Submitted

Controller Classic Transfer / Export Structures - make Controller Web Import Specs and Lookups selection specific

Instead of having to import all Controller Web Import Specifications and/or all Web Lookup tables, it would be helpful if you could select specific Import Specifications and Lookup tables. (especially as Transfer/Export Structures is IBM's work ar...
5 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Procedure to do a mass delete in the SQL-tables (outside the Controller interface).

It is very much work to execute the UNSUPPORTED solution described hereby. We require this because we perform regularly a datarefresh to another pillar. In the target pillar, other users need access to Controller, and it should taken many hours to...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

Data gate instance be able to write on more the one S3 Bucket (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, has structured its organization into independent and agile business squads, which is reflected in their data domain organization and data governance. To accommodate this structure, the data architecture requires flexibility. Curr...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 2 Under review