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LOAD DATE_P expects Julian date to be 5-byte DDDYY external format; Allow for packed data input (3-byte) with the P3 designation

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about 6 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Delivered

Generate a reorg for the history table when doing an add column on the base table (STT)

I’m going to add a column to two tables that are “connected” through versioning (STT).This is what I (or the tool) should do: ALTER TABLE MY.BASETAB ADD NEW_COLUMN DECIMAL(5, 3) NOT NULL; REORG TABLESPACE MYDB.BASETS REORG TABLESPACE MYDB.HISTTS T...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

Resolution for error 9506 in data replication during DDL changes

In our environment we are using IIDR (CDC) to replicate data from various DB platforms (Source - Oracle, DB2 LUW, AS400, DB2 ZoS) and target the replicated data into Datastage Flat File agent. The data written into flat file will get matured every...
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

HostFactory: ncores of slot_mapping supports fraction

Currently HF only support integer slot to ncores mapping We would like to have 1 slot to 0.5 ncores to fully utilize the resource of AWS instance
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

Informix AIO tunig options in the way kernel resources are allocated (aio-nr).

When you bring up a instance of the Informix Server which uses KAIO the instance goes out and takes 50% of the aio-nr resources from what I have been able find. then when a second instance comes up it took like 75% of the resources left and then a...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

LSF enforced limits

LSF currently inherits the environment (limits) from the system when the LSF Daemons are started, and doesn't compensate based on whether the LSF daemons are started by process 1 (init) or by root. If LSF is configured to startup as part of the sy...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Eight More User States for Triggering Custom Events fo a Batch (ICL)

We plan on using the two existing user states User State Field 1 and User State Field 2 for triggering our custom events for a batch (ICL) within FTM. Unfortunately, only two user states are not adequate in order to trigger all of our custom event...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Delivered

Customizable User State Names on FTM for Check GUI

On FTM GUI (e.g. CPCS Entries screen), we would like to be able to customize the names of the user states (E.G. User State Field 1 and User State Field 2) to something meaningful.
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Delivered

Set Synchronization Scope separately for each Dimension of a Widget

Client has Book with multiple tabs. Region dimension should by synced across all tabs. However, each tab contains multiple widgets, which should share context within that tab only. These dimensions are also present on other tabs, which should NOT ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Dependency on systemd added in DB2 11.1.1.1 prevents installation in RHEL 7.3 docker container

Idea created for the RFE closed wrongly - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=103478 21 vote(s) as of Mar 13, 2019 We use Docker containers to perform automated testing of our products on various prerequisite s...
over 6 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered