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EVENTID in DIS UTIL output

When running a utility in Db2 13 it is recorded in table SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES with an EVENTID. If the utility execution stops, causes or has problems it would be of great help if we colud see the EVENTID in the output from command DIS UTIL. This wa...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Enable 'Temporal' for DB2...

V12R1M500 enables to optionally activate/deactivate 'Temporal RTS tables'. Please provide to optionally and granular activate/deactivate 'Temporal catalog .... AUTH tables'. We know that temporal for catalog tables will require that the insert int...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Provide a flag for Cloning tool to unload/Load tables having RI

Currently, the Cloning tool does not Unload/Load tables that have RI defined on them. This is despite the fact that these tables become eligible for Unload / Load due to legitimate reasons like Source Target Mismatch where Source defined as a Simp...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 3 Delivered

Adding of a new apply parameter DBLOAD_OPTIONS in order to influence an automatic load performed by the Q-Replication apply program on column-organized tables.

A column compression dictionary is used to compress data in a column of a column-organized table. When you load data into a column-organized table, the first phase is the analyze phase, which is unique to column-organized tables.The analyze phase ...

Different Column Names for Union Query

IBM Db2 z/OS development team to allow different column names in different parts of a UNION clause, as long as their types match, and assign the column names from the first part of the UNION clause to the columns of resulting table
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Delivered

Exploration filtering based on table values in IBM PA Workspace (PAW)

Currently, in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), there's no option to filter the exploration based on the string values present in the table. Our users expect it to be available alongside the Sorting function, which works just fine. Please ch...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Improve design to reduce xacclock table size but retain the comp locking information

database table size has grown because of company locking records. However, it is not good idea to purge the table information just because multi period locking is in place. When company wish to unlock a period, the company locking should remain in...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Delivered

More efficient way of freeing or deleting a bind copy for trigger packages.

We would like a way to free or delete bind copy for trigger packages. You can delete/free rows from the bindcopy tables for triggers. For packages you use the FREE PACKAGE command with the PLANMGMT (INACTIVE) parm Ex. FREE PACKAGE - (AM.AMPILN.(AM...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

IDAA full support for column masking

Current support for DB2 tables with column masks is minimal. As column masking becomes more prevalent, the ability to access the data in those tables within our BI environment remains the same. Providing full support (i.e. loading all of the data ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 3 Delivered

Automated MAPs/SETs Update with Reference Data Handling

Problem Statement: Currently, updating MAPs/SETs in IBM requires a manual process of exporting reference data, updating MAPs/SETs, publishing new MAPs/SETs, and loading data back. This process is time-consuming and error-prone. Proposed Solution: ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered