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ONCONFIG Parameter to Automatically tune OPTIMIZER for generic Workload (OLTP:DSS):

ONCONFIG Parameter to Automatically tune OPTIMIZER for generic Workload (OLTP:DSS): Currently the onconfig.std file is a mix of defaults for OLTP and DSS, often landing on DSS, for example OPT_COMP_IND , OPT_SEEK_FACTOR , OPT_GOAL, etc. With the d...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Make serial date translation consistent between cell formatting and rule/TI functions

By default (UseExcelSerialDate=F): Formatting a numeric element as a date uses a Microsoft Excel serial date (Jan 1, 1900 as a base date) Rule and TI functions to convert a serial number to a date uses legacy TM1 serial dates (Jan 1, 1960 as a bas...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DSNRXXXX tables userID case sensitive problem

Hello,This enhancement request is referenced to PMR 17878,001,862 . Please review PMR 17878,001,862 . We are using db2 10 for z/OS and external security -RACF- on this system . DB2 user's distributed connection type is JDBC / ODBC. They reach db2 ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

RFE for Datastage with DB2 BLU/MPP

Client use DB2 BLU for online inquiry and Data warehouse to improve performance of Parts Information System. Their warehouse includes huge BLU table (table size is 30TB before compress) that is MPP configured.Clinent uses Datastage to load the hug...
over 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

DB2 SQLCA feedback field indicating if this UOW is blocking others

On DB2 12 CERT (V12-CERT-2017) we discussed the possibility of increasing concurrency in DB2. In a typical batch environment we try to balance #of commits towards concurrency using a so-called commit-control-system that will have COMMIT on a numbe...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Health Check Script for OpenPages

There are many settings, configuration files, parameters, etc. in an OpenPages installation. It would be helpful if we had a script or utility that could validate those settings against one another and against the installed environment. For exampl...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 0 Not under consideration

Cognos query parameters remembered in prompt after validation

After one validation of any report expression, Cognos remembers the given parameters, which appear instead of the preset values on the report prompt page. It would be user friendlier, if these parameters weren't remembered, when the report runs. (...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Add parameter to the OPRestore command to perform the restore without including the Database

Case TS000882074By policy , the OPBackup command is executed once a month, the app-nodb parameter is used so that the database is not included in the backup because it already has its own backup policy.This same process can not be performed for th...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 0 Not under consideration

Generate DDL for implicitly created XML tables and tablespaces

Today Admin tool cannot really handle implicitly created XML tables and tablespaces very well. It's very obscure to really understand what parameters were used when creating the table or if they differ from the source table. Using OCT via GOCCMDDF...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Re-Start DataStage job (or sequence) with identical parameter settings

It would be a huge benefit to get an simple option to start a job or sequence with the identical parameter settings of the last run. Having Jobs with many parameters and parameter sets this takes time to do it manually and the parameters have to b...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration