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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

    Automatic data validation by using asnclp create qsub with different data type column mapping

    Related to the case TS020335936 Scenario: Consider the following qsub creation: mapping VARCHAR(26) to TIMESTAMP(6) TRGCOLS EXCLUDE (RECORD_TIME, MES_RECORD_TIME, SITE_CD, D_KEY, CHANGE_TYPE, CHANGE_TIME) EXPRESSION ( "'MES2'" TARGET SITE_CD, "cur...
    about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Replication for Availability (LUW, Db2 Warehouse) 0 Submitted

    Performance improvement for expression

    Add one column with STATIC expression on target, but got long processing time (delay) on apply side. Would like to know the reason why. New Expression:Expression: ‘MES1’ -> site_cd Existing expression looks like as:CASE WHEN :SYS_CD is NULL the...
    6 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Replication for Availability (LUW, Db2 Warehouse) 4 Under review

    IP restrictions for public administrative access (dedicated VPC)

    Restricting the devices that can connect from public environments by IP address is a requirement of the customer's security policy and is requested by Japanese customers.This function was implemented in Gen2, but not in Gen3, and this has been poi...
    6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 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

    Alter QSUB add *EXPRESSION* without DROP/RECREATE

    As we know, user can alter QSUB and add current_timestamp / timestamp column without drop/recreate QSUB. But it is NOT possible to add an *EXPRESSION* without drop/recreate QSUB. With this feature, it's much more convenient without annoy drop/recr...
    about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Replication for Availability (LUW, Db2 Warehouse) 0 Needs more information

    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...
    4 months ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 0 Submitted

    To resolve the backup failure issue caused by identical hostnames across IIAS appliances running in Docker containers.

    Assigning unique hostnames to each IIAS appliance (or container) is essential because backup tools like EMC NetWorker rely on hostnames to identify and manage client systems. When multiple appliances use the same hostname, EMC NetWorker cannot dif...
    5 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Replication for Availability (LUW, Db2 Warehouse) 0 Under review

    Allow Db2 columnar table replication to watsonx.data

    Truist has obtained 3M+ of Data Replication entitlements in Q1 of 2025 to replicate data from Exadata and Db2 WH to Snowflake. Db2 WH table are all in columnar format and Truist would like for the tables to stay the same way. Our current proposed ...
    6 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Replication for Availability (LUW, Db2 Warehouse) 0 Submitted

    Integrate Qreplication automation with Pacemaker

    Pacemaker if can control stop/start/status q-replication , that will be a great help in making sure q-replication is up and running . Currently we have a solution to do similarly in TSA, but with TSA getting deprecated soon we would like to have t...
    about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Replication for Availability (LUW, Db2 Warehouse) 0 Future consideration

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