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Enable classic reorg with "allow write access"

Many customers want to REORG their tables quickly and efficiently. The classic REORG is by far the fastest option but puts the table in read only mode. Inplace reorg allows write access but is much slower and not suitable for tables that have a hi...
over 8 years ago in Db2 3 Future consideration

Enable Accurate and Comprehensive Lineage Visualization for complex SQL dependencies ( Support for Complete Lineage Including indirect Data source in the Lineage Graph )

We have observed that the lineage graph is not displaying correctly in certain scenarios. Specifically for some views that are created using SELECT * from multiple source table, the lineage graph is incomplete. For example, We have a view that is ...
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

wx.ai Synthetic Data - Generating synthetic data using information from more than 1 source at the same time

Currently, wx.ai Synthetic Data allow to consume data from only 1 table in a relational database or 1 csv file at a time. This limitation prevents the user from generating synthetic data using information from more than 1 source at the same time.I...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Prevent package invalidation after ALTER TABLE ROTATE

System: Production management databaseActor: Developers maintaining the databaseDescription: Our customer runs a 24/7 production management OLTP system with IMS V10 and DB2 V9 for z/OS on which its transaction rate gets as high as 10 trans/sec, an...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1

Object Level Security at Table and Field Level for Data Modules

Data Modules do not currently have a way to specify object level security at the table or field level the way Framework Manager does. You should be able to set which tables and fields a particular user or group of users is able to see. There are m...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Future consideration

Support for CREATE INDEX DEFER YES DEFINE NO would be very usefull for Spaces with a 'high' number of partitions to avoid timeouts on SYSTSTAB.

When using "CREATE INDEX DEFER YES DEFINE NO", "DEFINE NO" is ignored with SQLCODE 20122 and the VSAM Clusters are created anyway. Doing this for a partitioned index on a partitioned table with lots of partitions (400+) the runtime of CREATE INDEX...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration
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Db2 runstats command, allow to be run on table partition level

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Db2 Runstats command can only be run on whole table, at this moment. It cannot be executed on selected partitions only.RUNSTATS ON TABLE table ....options... We would like to have possibility to execute runstats utility on selected partitions only...
about 2 years ago in Db2 3 Future consideration

Enable use of DSN_PROFILE* tables global variables for local workload

At the following link, we see global variables can be used with profile tables. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=connections-setting-built-in-global-variables-profile-tables However, there is a sentence that mentions the following:...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0

Dashboard: How to set the column width of the table freely.

The width of columns cannot be set freely in the table for dashboard. If that is possible, valuable space can be effectively utilized.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Planned for future release

Support for plan name filter in profiles with 'RELEASE PACKAGE'

Since Db2 V13 it is posssible to override the RELEASE(DEALLOCATE) option for packages by using profile tables.This can be done for local threads and remote threads. In order to do this, you have to create a profile with the Keyword 'RELEASE_PACKAG...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review