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Request official support for monitoring Informix with Datadog products

Request the ability to monitor Informix using Datadog products as customer relies on Datadog as their central monitoring platform and would prefer to consolidate all activities there
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

SQL function LAG (and other passthrough OLAP functions) – implement natively Db2 Z !

SQL function LAG (and other passthrough OLAP functions) – implement natively Db2 Z ! Db2 Z provides some OLAP functions that are only available as passthrough functions that are only available via an “accelerator” https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-f...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Under review

Request Informix slow queries history

When a user executes a query and the execution time is over x seconds, the SQL text is saved to a database table, along with general statistics like number of times it executes, avg duration, rows retrieve, row sent, etc. This is configured at a d...
26 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Change Load Backout YES delete log process

During execution of LOAD RESUME YES BACKOUT YES SHRLEVEL NONE LOG NO DISCARDS 1, if 1 duplicate row is funded, all rows loaded will be backed out, regardless if there was just 1 duplicate. DB2 call Data Manager back out all the other rows writing ...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

DSN Systemprofile history of command -STA PROFILE

DSN Systemprofiles are controlled via Catalogtables DSN_PROFILE_TABLE and DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES which have corrosponding history- table. In those history tables, past states of profiles are stored. However, since a profile entry is not activated ...
22 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

ARCRETN - Managing by DFSMS - SMS Management Class

In a situation related to replication delay, it was necessary to keep the Db2 archive log longer than its current retention period. The subsystem parameter ARCRETN was set as 17 days as in Management Class. The planning was to alter the retention ...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

DSNTEP2/4 should issue Timestamp before and after SQL statement execution, or even better the delta ow long a SQL statement needs

If a lot of SQL statements are executed in one job and step, it is very difficult to find the SQL which takes the long time. IFCID traces on DB2 must be started to neil this down. OR another example is the fact that e.g. the first ALTER in a seque...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Implementing a DB2 HADR Cluster Solution on AWS with Route53 in Place of Overlay IP.

As outlined in the IBM technote, implementing a DB2 HADR cluster using Overlay IPs presents several constraints. The Overlay IP must be unique within the VPC and on-premises environments and must adhere to the private IP address range specified in...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 2 Under review

Request block level Informix cluster replication

Using block level replication will avoid a lot of SQL apply processing issues. It will lead to significant performance gains by offloading replication workload. Since it is an identical copy of the primary database, it can even fix corrupt block b...
26 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted

Utility History support to expand to record Utility Phase Level execution details

Utility History and the related object level history is a very welcome new addition. What will also be really useful will be the utility object level phase execution details e.g. CPU and Elapsed at every phase in the utility execution. This will p...
27 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review