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Allow RESUME NO with LOAD SHRLEVEL CHANGE

Allow RESUME NO with LOAD SHRLEVEL CHANGE to be sure that the table is really empty.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Parallel Unload of Partitioned Table including Lob columns is not possible

We try to unload a partioned Tablespace with a Lob column into Datasetswith spanned format.But is unload into one Datset and i do not see the following messageDSNU1201I 326 13:35:11.03 DSNUUNLD - PARTITIONS WILL BE UNLOADED IN PARALLEL We have lar...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Pin up Filter in Query Table

Today we are having round about 300 Querys defined. Each user has some private working querys (by definition) starting with the name prefix "BT_". It would be great to Pin up a filter. (in comparison to the old UI the querys were splitted up on x-...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

New Function UNHEX

New Function UNHEX (name subject to change/negotiation) We have a system where all CHAR columns are defined FOR BIT DATA. It seemed genius at the time to save a few bytes of data, not realizing the negative impact in future maintainability and in ...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Lists, crosstabs, charts, tables resize with mouse

It would be muche easer to create reports if we could change size of objects by using just mouse (no property settings by entering high and wight).We can do this with Visualizations but for some reason this does not work with other objects (tables...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Explain STMTCACHE By DSG instead of 1 member

EXPLAIN STMTCACHE ALL will only enter data into the DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE table for the member of the datasharing group on the LPAR which it's running. To get all of the dynamic SQL stats, the EXPLAIN has to run multiple times. Have the ability to e...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

HQ: Add a 'Hot tables" sub-menu in the Performance tab, same for LOCKS

It would be a good thing to have, in HQ's performance sub-menu, a 'Hot tables' (and indexes) section which can be based on the output of onstat -g ppf. The idea is to have a view on the tables that are more active, and eventually click on one tabl...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Member Caption in Context Filter is out of Sync

The captions of the dimension elements in the context filter do not update after a rebuild of the cube. The data source already contains the new caption, but the report still contains the old one. (See screenshot in appendix).The same, wrong behav...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to query catalog tables and administrative views in stand by

There is an option called Read On Standby (ROS) that allows to connect and perform selects on the standby role of a HADR cluster. However, this is focussed to business tables. I propose the capability to perform selects on the standby but just on ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Parameter for RECOVER utility to avoid invalidation of RTS-information

We would like a parameter (e.g. KEEP_RTS) for the RECOVER utility to indicate that real-time statistics should not be set to NULL. After a RECOVER we need to run a REBUILD of any indexes that have not been recovered, and the REBUILD utility uses R...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration