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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Journal Control Field &USER not filled correctly within Oracle dbms_scheduler

We use the journal control fields within IDR. Especially the &USER field. Our whole archiving solution is based on that Means we delete data with a certain Oracle USER like REPL_ASRV on a global Oracle database and the data is really deleted i...
about 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

THREAD limit to be set per HOST or PER CORE instead of PER JOB

The current THREADS limit on a queue level is set per job while it has to be set per HOST or per CORE. That is because current limit doesn't reflect the size of a job so is the THREADS limit is 600 it means that a single core job can produce up-to...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Delivered

kafka connector should be able to read only committed messages

Our Kafka Producer writes messages on a Kafka topic acting transactionally and it could rollback the transaction when certain events occur. As of now, the behaviour of the Kafka connector is to read also uncommitted messages (see case TS003289786)...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Delivered

Run LSF file IO operations within the container.

LSF jobs using containers depend on mounts within the container. These mounts are not available on bare metal where LSF runs file operations. The bare metal dependency means that LSF file related operations, -o, -f, -E, -Ep, etc. will not have acc...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

IBM Load - if load column has bad data, Load discards the record instead of Loading the record with a Default value

While converting from BMC Load Plus to the IBM Load, the following anomaly has been identified: The BMC Load parameter DEFAULTIF ERROR does not exist in IBM Load. This causes BMC to load the default value for the column whenever it encounters bad ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Delivered

Gantt chart visualization tool tip should show start and finish date of BAR

When using standard visualization of Gantt chart, it is not displaying proper dates in tool tip.Currently it shows no. of days since 01/01/1970.Suppose the start date is : 21/07/2015Tooltip will show : Number of days = 21/07/2015 - 01/01/1970 Expe...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Would like means of collecting Maxdbat information by AUTHID

We are in the process of providing max thread limits via the Db2 Profile tables AUTHID entries for our applications. We would like to use a AUTHID=* entry to provide a default thread limit and use AUTHID=xxx values for applications which may need ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Set Synchronization Scope separately for each Dimension of a Widget

Client has Book with multiple tabs. Region dimension should by synced across all tabs. However, each tab contains multiple widgets, which should share context within that tab only. These dimensions are also present on other tabs, which should NOT ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Make TSA start DB2 under system.slice, in order to gracefully stop/takeover databases on shutdowns/reboots.

Since init was replaced by systemd as the linux main process (in 2014 !), it makes huge difference the way DB2 is started. At server shutdown or reboot, the user processes are all killed, and only then systemd starts to stop the services. This beh...
over 6 years ago in Db2 2 Delivered

DB2 Generated Always Timestamp Field - Default Values Change

The 'default value' for a generated always time stamp column is the last PAGE update time stamp or LRSN, but the LRSN can change and thus the default value changes. Which means that until you REORG the object, when you update a single row on a DB2...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered