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Add Effective Memory Utilization to All Statistics Tables

RTM maintains a consistent set of ETL's across multiple dimensions. It is the same table structure for all of these ETL's. However, a key metric is missing from the ETL's and it's the effective memory utilization. In other words sum(max_memory) /s...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Real-time statistics with statistics profile can lead to deadlocks and lock timeouts

DB2 real-time statistics facility honors RUNSTATS options specified in the statistics profile, while performing synchronous statistics collection during statement compilation. If the statistics profile contains ALLOW READ ACCESS option, this can l...
about 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add Accelerated/NOT Accelerated node to Access Plan Graph when IDAA plug in is NOT installed

When setting query acceleration = enable; externalize the data in DSN_QUERYINFO_TABLE by adding an Accelerated/NOT Accelerated node to Access Plan Graph when IDAA plug in is NOT installed - as is included when the plug in is installed
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support for columns with names longer than 30 characters

DVM currently fails when attempting to create virtual tables over source tables with column names longer than 30 characters. DBMS's including Postgres, Oracle and DB2 LUW allow for longer column names.
about 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add support for newly added operation in Oracle 12.2: DBMS_REDEFINITION.ROLLBACK()

There is a new ROLLBACK procedure for the DBMS_REDEFINITION package that initiates the swapping of the redefined table with the original table, therefore effectively rolling back the redefinition changes and returning the table to its original state.
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

DB2 should produce more accurate filter factors (to better optimize queries)

Today, when I have a query with an equals predicate and also an "IN LIST" predicate and both apply to the same table and when I have correctly collected multi-column frequency distribution stats for the two columns involved with these two predicat...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Temporal INSERT syntax for application period temporal tables

We are using application period temporal tables with success. Application period temporal tables and syntax makes it easy to distinguish between the data values and the time dimension of the data.When doing SELECT, UPDATE and DELETE there is a spe...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Adding Clone tables to Refresh Replication Method in CDC for DB2 for z/OS as Native Engine

We understand Clone tables are not supported in CDC for DB2 for z/OS as Native Engine. Our question, it should at least support the mapping of the Clone tables for refresh method as in the case of CDC for DB2 for z/OS as a Remote source. Our earli...
about 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Incorporate names for data tables in PowerPlay Studio where information in a cell requires a row or column header to adequately describe the cell’s contents.

Why is it Useful? PowerPlay Studio Accessibility enhancement: Currently, there are no header and cell association for data tables created in the workspace area of PowerPlay Studio. For screen reader technology users, the reading order of a data ta...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Not under consideration

Load into util next to a reorg

As discussed in IDUG EMEA 2023 Praag, i gave a presentation about reorg a big table that took 8 days. If the table cant be accessed, a recover to that point would take 6 hours. So table created at front that can have the data already loaded until ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Not under consideration