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Produce explain Summary Report as was produced in Data Studio

In addition to the index, table, and predicate reports, Data Studio produced a Summary Report that we'd like to see produced
about 2 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

IIDR CDC for Db2 for zOS Remote Source instance creation issue

During the CDC installation process, where the ./dmconfigurets tool is used, there are some options that can be entered as input, although they are quite limited. The need is to make the tool as flexible as possible and, allowing it to change the ...
9 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Enhance Data Tables to add Dynamic Sort functionality

In other Business Analytics applications, their Table/List function set includes the ability for the user to click column headings to change the sort of the data. Data Tables doesn't have this available, which leaves it falling short to the compet...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Please remove the error -21569 when accessing via the SQL Admin API

If you use a dbaccess or other client of a version older than 15.0.0.0 with the SQL Admin API to retrieve information from large tables, you get the error message -21569 'this client cannot create or open tables that use large rowids'. For example...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Enable/Disable Triggers at a Session or SQL level

I need update a significant number of rows on a very large table that has triggers. If I run disable triggers that is affect all sessions and means I need to take the table offline, which really means I need to take the system down SQL similar to ...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add in a "cdr learn server" or something similiar to connect two servers on an ER domain that may not have known about each other previously.

Servers and networking change around. There may be cases where two ER nodes who previously were unaware of each other or 'forgot' about each other need to be reconnected. Right now the only way to resolve this cleanly is to drop one of them from t...
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Be able to add options in the cross-LOAD command executed by QREP, during a refresh of target tables

Hello there, I have opened one IBM case for this topic. What is the point: We have some troubles with QREP replication.When QREP is trying to do a LOAD REPLACE (via stored procedure DSNUTILU), in the target table, if someone is using the targe tab...

Efficient unloading from external tables to regular tables

As the focus has been shifting towards ELT and not ETL we would like to use the parquet ingest method on the NPSaaS. From the source to parquet, which is ingested through to external tables. All these features work good for now! However, now we ha...
8 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Automatic migration of EXPLAIN tables in db2 LUW

Dear Team, We have seen whenever we migrate to higher version of db2 luw, the explain tables are not automatically migrated. We need to manually drop and recreate the explain tables to avoid errors like SQL0206N, SQL0220N, SQL1184N. As db2 modific...
over 1 year ago in Db2 1 Submitted

Request to add a built in function to achieve key cryptographic hashing for Netezza table data

Currently some of the Netezza tables which contains financial CARD details are using hash function to store data for cryptographic purposes. As per updated security policy and new pcidss version compliance, hashing is not sufficient, we need to do...
2 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted