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Allow site specific customization of default repo_db name IBMTMSDB and schema of IBMTMS

All customer sites have certain naming conventions that we have to adhere to and with hardcoding database and schemas it makes it problematic to integrate smoothly into the site.
about 1 month ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 0 Submitted

Accept and generate RACF Identity Tokens for authentication

If QWT and SQL Tuning Services could generate RACF Identity Tokens (IDT), then the generated token could be used with other z/OS components that support RACF IDTs such as Db2 for z/OS. This would benefit remotely pipelines that want to use protect...
11 months ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 0 Under review

Ability to stop runaway BigSQL query without access to OpenShift pods

Using Cloud Pak for Data as a service, one should be able to stop a runaway BigSQL query without access to OpenShift pods. Per IBM recommendation, we are using BigSQL to access parquet files stored in Cloud Object Storage. This is supported in Clo...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 2 Future consideration

Provide LOBS support for columns over 32kb

There is currently no LOBS support for columns over 32kb in BigSQL Hadoop tables. For column which size is over 32KB, there's a limitation on the DDL when creating the table (maximum size is 32672), hence whole data/string couldn't be retrieved wh...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Future consideration

TThis is SUPPOSED to be for z WORKLOAD SCHEDULER. I will open a new IDEA -- this zQUERY idea can be ignoredHCENeed to be able to customize TdwcGlobalSettings within the zconnector, for example, to increase the value for zosHttpTimeout to avoid timeout issues with RESTAPI calls

Having the timeout at 30,000 milliseconds (30 seconds) is causing difficulties for implementing RESTAPI. It seems to be possible to increase the timeout limit with: <?xml version="1.0"?> <tdwc> <settings> <http> <propert...
3 months ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 0 Submitted

Create QWT API or script to input SQLs and return recommendations reports file

This product working depends on personal act to access DSM or Data Studio to select type of input, set the filter, execute the job analysis and receive recommendations report, so we'd like do that by external input like a job, script or QWT API.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

QWT: Incorporate the same unit and costs as SQL/PA

We want QWT to incorporate the same unit and costs as SQL/PA (same QUNIT costs and dollar equivalent costs). We use these costs to compare expected performance of a query across the 30 production regions we manage. our management is always looking...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

OQWT in DSM for Z/OS Query Advisor Enhancement needed

Query Advisor missing obvious SQL predicate datatype inconsistency While researching a production issue in all our production systems with a remote DB2 program, we ran OQT in DSM and found that the QUERY ADVISOR was missing a very obvious and key ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Limit the 'list of tables' to display when using Ranger authorization

We need to limit the list of tables to display to non authorized users when Ranger policy are enabled. We followed the steps described in this article, but it doasn't work when using Ranger to manage users authorizations: https://www.ibm.com/suppo...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

Enhancements to OQWT Query Advisor

We use OQWT advisors regularly for both reactive and more common proactive performance review The DSM tool seems to be working fine, although we really need the query and Access path advisors to work. One of my concerns with the advisors (OQWT (DS...
over 8 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Planned for future release