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Option to select "OpSystem" user in Applicability conditions on workflow

Option to select "OpSystem" user in Applicability conditions on workflow. IN cascading workflow on the same object Sample Workflow A is calling Workflow B, I dont want user to See workflow B in action, However Currently I do not have option to hid...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Future consideration

Bitemporal tables and missing highest quantiles

If a user issues FOR BUSINESS_TIME AS OF clause against a bitemporal table, DB2 translates it to a where clause with two range predicates against business_time columns. In our system following situation occurs quite frequently: 1) At all time...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Future consideration

Add SQL-statement COMMENT ON as in Oracle or PostgreSQL

For some tables or columns it would be helpful to describe what the table/column is used for since the names are not always self-explanatory. Although COMMENT ON is not part of standard SQL it would be helpful to have such a statement. The DOCUMEN...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 6 Future consideration

Add Option to Migrate Datasets that were Recalled as Part of a Scan

Please add an option so a user can specify that the LAT job submitted migrates any datasets (thinking archive log datasets here) that it had to recall to complete the scan. An example would be where a user attempts to scan multiple days in the pas...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Set Partition Index, DPSI to the same DSSIZE as Tablespace when converting to RPN and ALTER TABLESPACE DSSIZE is after ALTER TABLESPACE PAGENUM RELATIVE

In numerous cases it is impossible to put the ALTER TABLESPACE DSSIZE in front of the ALTER TABLESPACE PAGENUM RELATIVE due to the number of partitions and page size. Currently this only works with the following. After the reorg materialization th...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

An AI assistant to test COBOL code rewriting

For cases WCAT-I-1, WCAT-I-8, WCAT-I-11, WCAT-I-16, WCAT-I-17, it would be useful to have a tool for automating the generation of non-regression test cases, comparing the results of executing the original COBOL program and the transformed COBOL pr...
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

WCA4Z to support ASSEMBLER language

Lot of mainframe applications are written in ASSEMBLER language. Clients are interested in modernizing those applications.
6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

DB2-LUW: Enable STMM on the HADR Standby

The standby inherits the db parms upon restore. If enabling ROS and running various reports (and other "stuff") on the standby - the memory parms (bufferpools, various heaps, etc) may not be optimal for that workload, but STMM is not altering the ...
6 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration

Run process in sandbox in workbench

I can't imagine, that this is not possible yet, but since tm1forum was not able to support, nor Google nor ChatGPT , this seems to be missing or being a bug. I was not able to run a process in a sandbox in a workbench of PAW. From the architect I'...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Enable use of DSN_PROFILE* tables global variables for local workload

At the following link, we see global variables can be used with profile tables. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=connections-setting-built-in-global-variables-profile-tables However, there is a sentence that mentions the following:...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration