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    Track SHRLEVEL info in Utilities history

    In Db2 13 utility execution can be recorded in one or two utilities history tables. We are struggling to find all utility executions ran with SHRLEVEL NONE to tell the applications to change their parameters to avoid problems. It is very hard to f...
    over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    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

    Load Utility: Extension of field selection criterion option by AND conditions

    The Db2 for z/OS LOAD utility offers a field selection criterion for the INTO TABLE option via WHEN( ... = ...). Since increasingly complex data structures are used application developers want to specify more complex conditions for selection of to...
    over 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Watson Translate Support for Rich Text Fields

    Currently Watson does not support rich text fields. This is a substantial amount of text fields and would include most data stream integrations provided OOTB for OP. Not being able to auto-translate is extremely confusing for the users and is inco...
    about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Future consideration

    Support Cert Based Authentication for ObjectManager

    Currently, ObjectManager does not allow for Liberty to use Cert based API authentication. To support cert based security requirements, ObjectManager needs to support calling a .crt or cert file as a parameter/password rather than only a simple str...
    over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 3 Is a defect

    Enable of changing SWITCHTIME in REORG by ALTER command

    SWITCHTIME command in REORG is valuable parameter to control the timing to cancel AREOR status. However, the value is not changeable from the one which is determined when REORG is executed. To increase its flexibility, we request you to be able to...
    6 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

    new DDCARD SYSERROR

    The output under sysprint can contain several thousand lines, especially when working with large listdefs. Then it is often very difficult to identify all the messages that lead to an RC8 or RC4. This is particularly true if there are several corr...
    about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    Eliminate Reorgs failing with S513 & IEC146I 513-04 when reorging LOBs

    The cause of the S513 error is due to the DB2 reorg utility trying to write two image copies in parallel (one for BASE and one for LOB) when a BASE UTS with LOB TS is being REORG’d and the specified template for image copy datasets has the STACK Y...
    about 6 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Idea For Limited Partition Locking for RI Related Objects

    Lock just the partitions of related objects using a cascaded key structure when utilities are used to write to the database. Allows Db2 RI use to coexist with utility operation when it is impractical to lock all partitions of parents and children.
    about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    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

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