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DB2 Instance Account Parameters

As per our company AD rules we need either the TSM (DB2) instance account to accept dashes '-' or for IBM to support AD Alias' See PMR - TS000957160
about 7 years ago in Db2 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

Stage Assembly : possibilité pour compiler l'ensemble (job + assembly stage(s)).

Le stage Assembly a une compilation java qui lui est propre. Lors, par exemple, d'une suppression d'un paramètre dans un parameter set, ils doivent être compilé séparément du job. On a donc plusieurs compilation à effectuer pour un mêm...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

parameter to allow only one user jobs to run in specific hosts at any time

Specific host group which has say has 1 host. which is dedicated to specific users using limits in lsb.resources . The requirement is how to allow only one user jobs run on these hosts at any point of time .
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

To enable capture log buffer flush periodically (Infosphere Replication Server)

Sometimes, there are too small data to replicate but busy logging which are not interested in. Q Capture log read should be quick enough even busy logging. Customer request the periodical flush of log buffer(logrdbufsz) with optional new parameter.
almost 8 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Not under consideration

[RFE][CreditSuisse] - Add alternative way of configuring ego.conf parameters in SOAM API (C#, C++, other)

Make it possible to pass ego.conf settings as parameters in SoamFactory.Connect() method. Here is pseudo code demonstrating idea: class ConnectionDetails{ List EgoMasterList; UInt LimPort; UInt KdPort; string EgoClientTsParams; … …} SoamFactory.Co...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

enable LSB_DISABLE_RERUN_POST_EXEC in job level

LSB_DISABLE_RERUN_POST_EXEC which can be used to not to run "post_exec" for rerun jobs can be set only cluster level in lsf.conf . Require a similar config parameter to enable this in jobs level so that it can be applied to specific jobs .
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Infosphere Datastage SyncProject Utility

While using the SyncProject to fix the corrupted project, project has been moved from original location to the default project location (/opt/IBM/InformationServer/Server/Projects/). Ideally utility should recover the project at the same location ...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Tolerance for system clock backward in DPF

The system clock may be changed forward, then be changed back. Some IUD operations fail in a DPF database if the time difference between the forward point and backward point is greater than the value specified by dbm parameter MAX_TIME_DIFF. Hope ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Need the ability to define default values for data exception handling

This is for Classic CDC for z/OS V11.3. Currently, replication will fail if it hits a data exception error such as blanks in a numeric field. We do not want replication to end on this type of scenario. There is a parameter, CSDATAVALIDATEACT that ...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration