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Profile-Table: Enable col...

Enable collection-id setting on server site to handle/use APPLCOMPAT (after Function Level Activation) in Profile-Tables. As of today the collection has to be set on remote site and can not be set/controlled on server site.
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Provide an interface to manage System Profiles

System profiles were introduced as long ago as DB2 9, and have been successively enhanced in every release since then. They provide a range of capabilities, including setting ZPARMs at a more granular level, production modelling in test systems, m...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Temporal table support for column-organized tables

Currently, a column-organized table cannot be a temporal table because a PERIOD SYSTEM_TIME or PERIOD BUSINESS_TIME declaration is not supported in column-organized tables. This prohibits temporal data management with BLU. We request that column-o...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

DDL alters to not disable auditing on tables.

DDL (See with Alter table) to not disable WITH AUDIT on tables.
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

UUID for PostgreSQL in CDC

Many modern PostgreSQL databases contain tables with columns of UUID type, which are often used as primary keys (e.g. are critical for the replication process).Adding support for replication of such tables (with UUID columns) will extend the usefu...
almost 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Ability to make on-line schema changes to tables on IDAA

We are currently evaluating the use of an IDAA server in our environment and would like column additions or alternations on the z/OS DB2 side to transparently be applied to the table on the IDAA server, eliminating the need to manually drop/add/re...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Support for key updates for Fast apply method ParallelizeSingleTableByHash

We are using ParallelizeSingleTableByHash for oracle target. This has resulted in extremely fast processing by the apply. However for certain tables when they have key updates, the delete and insert can result in different hash key and hence they ...
almost 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

provide a mechanism to avoid manually inserting hash code into thold.php and settings.php for new thold alerts to view details.

When we add our own thold alerts, we must add manually the hash code recorded into a mysql table into thold.php and settings.php scripts to be able to display details. Can you please redesign the code to avoid these steps ?
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Delivered

Add few more columns in Db2 Performance database

When we investigate performance issue, performance database is an useful source, because we can run SQL query against the tables to pull out data. But if few more columns could be added to the tables, it would greatly improve the productivity: in ...
about 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 2 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