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make Informix JDBC driver JDBC 4 compliant

The Informix JDBC driver should be JDBC4 compliant. That means, no separate JARs for driver and XA-driver and the file „java.sql.Driver“ in the „META-INF/services/“ directory
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Delivered

[Security][CE] - Hybrid Symphony / Active Directory integration security model

The Symphony Active Directory integration plugin removes all Symphony users with the exception of Admin, so that only AD users are available. This means that it is extremely difficult to migrate an existing cluster from the default Symphony securi...
over 11 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Delivered

Provide Accelerator systems administrator ability to see & set Incremental Update RSG controls

With Incremental Update now being in it's own resource sharing group (V4), the resource management controls (visible to the systems admin) is ambiguous and not flexible. 1) It does not include the relative percentage impact of the new IU resource ...
over 11 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

z/OS sever does not return Arabic data if substr is used for LIKE predicate. String transformation is needed as part of proce

z/OS sever does not return Arabic data if substr is used for LIKE predicate. String transformation is needed as part of processing. Host: z10 – z/OS V1R11DB2 for z/OS version 8.xx (PUT level is current as site is in the process of migrating to D...
about 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Read execution jobs from Deployment Space

Background: IBM Cloud Pak for Data has the entity of Deployment spaces which is parallel to project. For Datastage, this means each job can be either in some Project or in some Deployment Space (Test/Prod/etc). Currently the Databand <> Data...
about 2 years ago in Databand / Feature 0 Planned for future release

Improve Host Automation in RTM to Move a Host that is Moved from Cluster to Cluster

Today, in our operations, we will move a host from cluster to cluster and in RTM that means that there will now be multiple hosts with the same hostname associated with multiple clusters. What we would prefer is that instead of creating a new host...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

[Copy] Need clearer / more detailed DESCRIPTIONS of the SMF fields written by the DB2 CDC task

A number of the Descriptions of the fields of the SMF records written by the DB2 CDC z/OS process are not clear and would benefit by providing more more and/or more detailed DESCRIPTIONS. These descriptions are currently located in the Knowledge C...
about 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Functionality already exists

A REBALANCE utility that rebalances container maps (rather then filling in gaps)(RIMS)

The current REBALANCE utility actually moves extents around from higher stripes to lower stripes to fill in gaps of empty extents. This means that containers are not necessarily 'balanced' (ie. contain the same number of extents) at the end of the...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

way to make 'COMPRESS YES' the default for all CREATE TABLE/INDEX statements.(RIMS)

Customer would like a means to be able to make 'COMPRESS YES' the default behaviour for CREATE TABLE and CREATE INDEX statements. Since the customer's enterprise-data-warehouse database is used by many vendor applications, it's onerous to modify v...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Ability to insert a member property without 'Insert a Member Property' dialog

When we insert a member property into a crosstab on Cognos Workspace Advanced 'Insert a Member Property' dialog is displayed and we can see 2 options. One is 'Insert property only' and other is 'Insert property and group it'. But the second option...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration