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DB2 z/OS LOAD utility fail in utilinit holds UTUT status RFE 125566

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=125566 LOAD REPLACE LOG(YES) fails due to share locks/claims being held on tablespace but leaves tables in UTUT status which makes in inaccessible. Suggest t...
about 7 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Subscriptions are removed from being persistent when a target data channel comms. error is received.

== Customer is running Classic to IIDR/CDC SQL. Target SQL failed due to comms. issue in the data channel which was was considered non recoverable and dropped the sub. from being persistent. Would like the sub. to be restarted in this case.
about 7 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Retry to start SD on a different host

ESC_SERVICE_START_FAIL_RETRY parameter helps to retry to restart services but if a host is experiencing problem, it will run out of retry limit then move service to Error status. There should be a option to try to startup EGO service, for example ...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

Support High Availailty with hot standby mode

IMS, in support of HA, supports the concept of rolling maintenance where the IMS systems would be shutdown one at a time so that changes/maintenance can be applied. Once applied the system is restarted and the next IMS system is shutdown until we ...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Unable to see hierarchy attributes in the Data directory

Unable to see hierarchy attributes in the Data directory without either restarting the TM1 server or performing a Save Data all
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Track the oldest read-for-update in the bookmark to know where to start rebuilding read-for-updates on restart

VSAM Replication to track the oldest read-for-update in the bookmark to know where to start rebuilding read-for-updates on restart. This is required to resolve the issues we have been experiencing when our application does a read-for-update hours ...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Allow restart of Data Flows executions from the failure point

No description provided
almost 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Request to restart Python Child Process when task done

Currently, with Python drop 2, on the service side, each service wrapper process will spawn a new child process, which is responsible for the actual task function execution, when the wrapper process starts for a new session and will kill the child...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration

CDC for DB2 LUW recovering from database conditional locks

Recently one of the customers hit a conditional lock when reading from database log (with compression enabled) using DB2 read log api. Soon after this subscription failed without an ability to restart automatically. The conditional lock failure is...
about 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

IMS Rep: maintain/reset error status for subscriptions

There have been times when a subscription had an error that resulted in the subscription stopping, but also resulted in the started task crashing. When automation restarts the task, the errored subscription is now in an "inactive" status, in spite...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration