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Prompt to confirm the Takeover

In certain scenarios a Tablespace wouldn't have a NORMAL state at the Standby database. Depending on how important is that Tablespace and if it would be easily get back to NORMAL state or not, the user could decide to decline the Takeover. A table...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Submitted

Allow RECOVER INDEX BACKOUT YES for index with COPY NO

The RECOVER TABLESPACE with BACKOUT YES is a relatively new recover option. It tells Db2 RECOVER to start with the current state of the tablespace and read the data change log backwards to find all recent changes to the tablespace and undo those c...
11 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Jupyter Notebook Templates for Spark (Cloud Pak for Data > Projects) UI validation support for extra "=" characters

Jupyter Notebook templates for Spark include the Spark Configuration field to specify extra spark configurations. Currently the UI validation expects key=value but fails when more than one equals '=' character is present. When the UI validation fa...
21 days ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 Submitted

When DSNL077I tells us IN-USE DBAT is exceeding 85% of MAXDBAT then ALSO issue DISPLAY THREAD

DB2 has recently introduced message DSNL077I which tells us when IN-USE DBATS begin to exceed 85% of system parameter MAXDBAT. And the corresponding message of DSNL078I tells us when IN-USE DBATS falls below 75% of MAXDBAT https://www.ibm.com/docs...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY

ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY The DB2 redirected recovery functionality allows RECOVER utility to be used to redirect the recovery of an object (the source) to another object (the target). The source and target objec...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 6 Future consideration

Regarding the move rename script process

Regarding the move rename script process https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/openpages/9.0.0?topic=databases-entity-moverename-utility We want to propose a better function to batch move or rename business entitiessomething we tell you what kind of move re...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 1 Under review

Workflow to limit agentic catalog from becoming agentic swamp

The Orchestrate Discover Agents catalog allows anyone to create and deploy agents. You could have several agents that all do the same thing (or close to it.). Can we use AI (or other logic) that when a user wants to create/publish a new agent, tha...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Future consideration

For online REORG, create parameter to set RC=4 when DRAIN fails

I am creating a scheduled job to perform regular REORGs of the Db2 Catalog. I am generating a list of catalog objects and feeding it to LISTDEF and then using ITEMERROR,SKIP I am using extremely gentle DRAIN settings...DRAIN_WAIT of 2 or 3 seconds...
8 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Errors and standard output to be written to a log file.

want errors and standard output to be written to a log file. When an error occurs in executing a node created with extension node or custom node dialog builder, nothing is displayed in console output. It takes a lot of time to identify the problem...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Delivered

Support for authentication other than basic authentication on web crawlers

Watson Discovery's web crawlers implement Basic authentication support as website access authentication. Currently, there are few basic authentications for websites that are used commercially in the world, and most of them are "form authenticat...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration