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After START DB2 LIGHT(YES), provide new status messages while waiting for indoubt thread resolution

When DB2 is restartet using the LIGHT(YES) or LIGHT(CASTOUT) clause and indoubt URs exist, DB2 issues message DSNR052I at the end of restart. After this message, there is no acitvity driven by DB2 itself, that allows a monitoring or identifying wh...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Safe Restart after consistent dead kernel or failed kernel restart attempts

Whenever I am developing some new scripts/codes, sometimes it can break the jupyter notebook kernel and there is no way I can restart the kernel as if I am running in my own machine. It would be a good option for a one-click safe restart to avoi...
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Functionality already exists

Improving QREP online operation

ABC(Agriculture Bank of China) have implemented A-A based on QREP. Due to its huge number of data volume, the maintenance related to A-A is extreme complex. The more easy operation of QREP the more maintenance convenience.1. In some case, certain ...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

hostcache auto-delete function in the mbatchd restart

Dynamic hosts remain in the cluster unless you intentionally remove them.And the manual related to it is as follows.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=cluster-remove-dynamic-hostsSuppose we delete the hostcache file, not modify ...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Delivered

Always generate ALTER TABLE SQL for Identity Columns RFE 71287

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=71287 Could you please add a new parameter to Cloning Tool where it will always generate the ALTER TABLE Restart even if restart-valuie is not set in catalog. If a table wit...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

Operator updates less aggressive restart of instance pods

Subscriptions offer the possibility to choose between automatic and manual update approval. Choosing automatic results in direct updates of operators as soon as the subscription is updated. In our case, automatic update approval results in updatin...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

do not cache domain server on startup

At present, if Cognos Analytics is configured to point at a domain name instead of a specific domain controller Cognos Analytics will cache the domain controller's IP it receives on start-up and use that controller until the next restart. As the c...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

fix systemctl script to restart sbatchd

The root sbatchd crashes frequently in our cluster (and without anything useful in the log), but systemctl is not configured to restart the daemon. Please see the details in the related support case, but essentially we need to make it so this daem...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

Ability to Stop Auto Restart

Setting that will give Cloud Administrators the ability to stop an auto restart in order for Cloud Ops to collect logs to pinpoint the specific problem more effectively.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Increase the limit of 100 ckpts entries in BSDS

BACKOUT YES specifies the recovery of objects to a prior point in time by a log-only backout. No image copy is restored, it uses the log to backout changes made since the log point that is specified in the TOLOGPOINT or TORBA options. So we sugges...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration