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In db2look, for mimic stats, option to include commit each X sentences

In order to mimic an environment, the stats are extracted via db2look, and then inserted a regular execution of the generate file. The problem is that the generated updates could be easily more than 15000 sentences and it has two issues: If execut...
over 5 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the SSM paging logic

currently SSM holds page files once they are created and does not release the file handles or shrink the page files until SSM terminates. we think an enhancement is required so that the page files can be either released or actively cleaned up once...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 4 Not under consideration

Protect Export/Deployment File against Brute Force Attacks

Simple scenario: 1. Log in to application as an administrative user, e.g. as a user with the role Project_Developers. 2. Navigate to Manage > Content and create a new backup and protect it with the password 12345678. 3. Switch to the Restore ta...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reading Data Guard shipped logs stored in ASM

IDR can read logs shipped with Data Guard only if they're being shipped to files. In Oracle 12, logs can be shipped to ASM by Data Guard. We need IDR to be able to read those logs.
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Support IMS Unload file of Refresh

Ongoing project is planning to do initial DB construction using the Refresh function of CCDC to CDC. There are many View definitions in the CCDC, the logical table becomes over 800, and we want to improve the overall throughput . Specifically, we'...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

/tmp space requirement

We've run into stuff like this before. I think a lot of these requirements are from the purescale side, but they are being applied to all systems We address the /tmp space requirement a while back so that it is a warning now (although it still cau...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Update CDC as to being able to replicate multibyte enabled columns without doing conversion when contained data type is single byte

RE : Case TS003082492 - December 2019 We’re replicating new files which now contains DBCS-Open data type columns. However, the contained data is single byte characters only. CDC/IIDR insist on handling these columns as Unicode and converting data,...
over 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

PN_STAGEBLOB_THRESHOLD - Set to 1Mb when first table containing BYTE or TEXT is partitioned by Round Robin

Currently, the PN_STAGEBLOB_THRESHOLD onconfig parameter is not present in the standard onconfig file, therefore it defaults to zero. It's absence also means that most DBAs will not be aware of its existence and the potential pain they are in for...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

db2ReadLog API looks for pruned log files.

db2ReadLog API tries to read already pruned logs and returns error code SQL1273N with error message "An operation reading the logs on database "****" cannot continue because of a missing log file "S0000012.LOG" on database partition "0" and log st...
over 5 years ago in Db2 5 Not under consideration

Partitioning by region via PME Data Source

MDM v10.1 describes the Data Source for the probabilistic matching tables via PME specific properties files. This has enabled to configure PME Data Source to be different then the Data Source for the rest of the MDM operational tables, in order to...
over 5 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration