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CDC for z/OS should use the same access control module as DB2 for z/OS.

CDC for z/OS can use only Db2 ACM exit named DSNX@XAC, made accessible to CDC via STEPLIB concatenation. However, starting with DB2 for z/OS v10, customers can use a member name other than DSNX@XAC for the access control exit routine (zPARM ACCESS...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

Allow Policy Author field to be multi-select

PCM module does not allow Policy Author field to be multi-select. If you change the display type of the field to multi-select, it will break the OOB Policy Unlock Helper, which is expecting the Author to be a single user when it determines if the ...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Future consideration

ASNCLP to support a VALIDATE(NO) option

When creating new replication configurations ASNCLP checks the existence of MQ Queues, qmaps, tables, etc. When deploying to production, we need to have pre-prepared and tested the implementation scripts. However, because ASNCLP validates that the...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Update last modified date when parent child association changes

Every night we send extract of delta records to downstream systems for each object in JUNO (Incident, Issue, Action and etc) The delta records are identified based on Last modification date. As Last modification date is not getting updated for fol...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Not under consideration

Provide option to set preferred user name than generated Informix user

We are OEM to IBM Cognos Analytics and our field fail to install cognos analytics using easy install option in some customer environments for POCs as customers have limitation of not using local users or simple user names such as Informix. When w...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Single self-contained Windows DLL for .net5/6

With Oracle or Microsoft, we have the possibility to just reference one DLL to get full access to those RDBMS without driver installation. The latest Nuget packages are a nice addition, but publishing a project with VS releases the full clidriver ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

Synchorization using dynamic subset

We used dynamic subset to synchorize the graphs and TI procesess in our PAW books as this is the optimal solution for our 85 users as it allow them to know what cost centre they are using and automatically reduces the amount of cost centres needed...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

SQLHOSTS groups connect to non-primary

Include at SQLHOSTS options specific for groups to allow connection for non-pimary serversSomething like : conn_sec = 1 Then , the client will be able to connect at any server of the group, no matter if it is Primary / HDR / RSS / SDS. ... Today i...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

New Security capability to deny user access by selecting them from the namespace directory in external email

Type in external email capability Last Updated: 2021-11-24 A defect affecting the Type in external email capability is now fixed. Previously, a user who was denied the capability was still able to type in the email address of an external recipient...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Having counter the number of query failbacks

If a query failbacks to Db2 for z/OS, users would like count the number of failbacks and possibly the SQL Text itself. Today, SQL Query Monitors running for Db2 for z/OS can not differentiate the executed SQL's origin. For instance (1) SQL can be ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration