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UMS UI to support creating an Application that contains Global Variable

It is not currently possible to create an application using the UI that imports Global Variables. Support for Global Variables needs to be provided.
6 months ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Under review

Support Provisioning an instance to a Schema where objects already exist

We need the ability to deploy a DOE instance into a Db2 where objects with the target schema name already exist. This is required, for example, if we have PLAN_TABLEs pre-provisioned for a given schema, or if we later determine that we need additi...
6 months ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Under review

Provide an API that enables you to identify the Application an object is defined in

We have hundreds of UMS applications and it is not easy to determine in what application and object is defined - or whether it is already defined in an application. This request is to provide an API that will enable us to supply an object name, an...
6 months ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 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 ...

Control passphrase case sensitivity

Today passphrase or password input is set to uppercase characters or not dependent on profile option CASE. When this option is set to UPPER, then all lowercase characters are converted to uppercase. This leads to failed logons and in the end to re...
about 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Provisioning rule required to remove KEY LABELS for test instances

Devops Experience applications are created from a production, or like-production source. In production we use pervasive encryption, and so some tables have a KEY LABEL defined and make use of ICSF and data encryotion. In test environments we do no...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1

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...

Provide Support for INSERT and WITH in QMF for WebSphere

Please evaluate providing support for INSERT with WITH in QMF for WebSphere. This is currently available in QMF for TSO
7 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Request for supporting MQ automatic client reconnect

As we know, IBM MQ supports multi-instance configuration and automatic client reconnect since version 7.0.1. Recently we found the latest Q-Relication (11.4.0) even not support such a basic function( automatic client reconnect with multi-instance ...

DOE - DDL protection issue

Protection of Master DDL (tables etc.) owned by application teams and how DOE can successfully and fully restrict changes to only by ‘owners’ of those objects. Example: •A DOE Team is created e.g. ABC, assigned to an Environment and ABC team m...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Future consideration