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RESTORE fails with SQL30082N RC=3 if an LDAP database with the same name already exists in Active Directory(RIMS)

Restore fails with 'SQL30082N Security processing failed with reason '3' ('PASSWORD MISSING')' when there's still a database with the same name in the Windows Active Directory but on another server.The restore completes when the other db is uncata...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

MapReduce - Platform Symphony M/R to support Object Store (QA Project)

Many customers are looking for an lower cost storage options(similar to Amazon S3 or OpenStack Swift) on Amazon cloud or Softlayer cloud and able to run analytic on it. Current option for storage that are available to IBM Platform Symphony Cloud s...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 3 Not under consideration

Database sharding

The customer is considering to deploy multi-active system cross multiple sites, the distance among sites might be more than 1000km. The data could be distributed by hash, and rarely cross site data access by transaction/query. DPF might be a good ...
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Currently Committed for UPDATE

In DB2 10 for z/OS a new feature allowing currently committed data was deployed, enabling an application reading data to have the option of viewing previously committed work. This allowed for greater application concurrency, comparability with Ora...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Monitor the index clean up process without starting a trace.

I would like to be able to monitor the DB2 for z/OS index cleanup process without starting a DB2 trace. Please could you do one or all of the following: 1. Create a DB2 command, -DISPLAY INDEXCLEANUP, to externalize the same information that IF...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Correct Heuristics Design Bug

The Heuristics plugin trim's Project Names on panels inconsistently: 1) Trims, but does not properly roll-up statistics 2) Does not trim consistently between panels 3) Projects no way to provide Project trimming level (1, 2, 3, x, All) Basically...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Deprecate License Scheduler DYNAMIC setting and support RUSAGE DURATION natively

Currently License Scheduler does not support jobs that use a DURATION on a license reservation in either Fast Dispatch or Cluster Mode. We would prefer that License Scheduler follow LSF properly in all three modes, and deprecate/remove the DYNAMIC...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

DB2 to add support for Oracle equivalent UTL_RAW package methods.

Oracle provided UTL_RAW to do bit calculation and comparison. After setting DB2 COMPATIBILITY VECTOR for ORA also we don't have any support for these packages in DB2. Oracle's UTL_RAW functions e.g. BIT_AND does not have any limitation on input RA...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

DB2 should check if there are any errors in the history file for(RIMS)

Headline cont... the relevant backup before the restore operation is started Description: Customer canceled/aborted a backup (kill against the vendor process) of his database after some hours (the reason is not relevant for this problem). The inco...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

db2haicu branches to maintenance mode.Also menu navigation can be heavy or lead to dead ends(RIMS)

From PMR 90884,077,649: Issue #2: db2haicu branches to maintenance mode when a partial config is in place. A complete db2 / TSA solution includes: 1. DBM CFG parm CLUSTER_MGR being set to TSA 2. the presence of file ~/sqllib/cfg/db2ha.sys Page 4 o...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration