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Reorg Utility Progress data is missing in db2 list utilities and db2 list utilities show detail command

The db2 list utilties and db2 list utilities show detail command will not display the Reorg utility progress. 1) The command will display the Runstats progress details for the table 2) The command will display the Load progress details for the tab...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 72 Future consideration

Display IAG2 on object level

Sometimes IAG2 will be disabled, in some situations this is clear and ok, in some situations it is strange and not expected. To implement reliable automation we need e.g. an enhancement to DISPLAY DATABASE SPACENAM with IAG, which shows which inse...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Centrally manage hiding databases users don't have access to

Whilst you can hide databases in PAW and PAfE, they do appear to be separate solutions and not joined up. - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analytics/2.0.0?topic=wnim2-hide-databases-in-preferences - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analy...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Improve Stored Procedures features

We are trying to increase the usage of SP in our system environment. Migrating business code from 4GL to the database.But this process becomes very painful for our developers since the support for SPL is limited. Mainly the inexistence of a native...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Catalogs should have an alternative screen for showing / presenting Data Assets in a hierarchical way

Client is requesting a more contextual way, so to speak, of showing the Data Assets in the catalogs. The way the Data Assets are presented nowadays is considered loose. They should belong to a certain context. At the very least, there should be a ...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Add Estimated Percentage Complete for database restore in db2 list utilities show detail

When backup is executing and in another session "list utilities show detail" is executed there is e.g. "Estimated Percentage Complete = 30" displayed. But when restore is performed this estimated percentage is missing. Please add this info for res...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Evaluate using io_uring for I/O in Informix Linux Platform

Create some performance tests and evaluate an architecture change in Informix to migrate AIO or Kernel AIO to using kernel io_uring Maybe it's not possible to use io_uring in Informix and nowadays, performance increase from using IO_DIRECT KAIO to...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

JSON and JSONB maximum size on NPS

Message systems like Kafka are often used as an enterprise nervous system for data. A datawarehouse like Netezza Performance Server needs to be able to consume this data for analysis and reporting. Most organizations prefer the loading of their da...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Backup/Restore GUI within HQ

One of the least enjoyable tasks is to using the archecker utility. Many times we need to restore just a row and/or rows in a table from an ontape backup. Restoring an entire database is easy from the command line. It would be very helpful if HQ c...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

CDC – CHCCLP – Option to remove or not display “Repl >” tags

In the CHCCLP script there is a “set verbose” option to display the result of every command. With no “set verbose” option the output still includes the “Repl >” tagsCreate an option to suppress these “Repl >” tags.For example.Repl > chccl...
12 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration