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New NOT NULL columns cannot be added to an empty table without a default value.

Submitted on behalf of Gregor Hack (ghack@zeb.de). New NOT NULL columns cannot be added to an empty table without a default value (WITH DEFAULT). Customer currently sets a dummy default value, which they drop afterwards.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

DataStage 11.5 Version compatibility with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Versions higher than 11 (i.e.12,13)

According to the IBM, the following document is available online in regards to DataStage 11.5 Version compatibility with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) Versions, it only has until SLES Version 11: http://www-969.ibm.com/software/reports/compa...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

MapR Support for Dask Component in Conductor

Version: 2.5.0Platform: x86Description: We'd like to request the development team to include MapR support for the Dask component of Conductor 2.5.0. We would like to be able to use the DataConnector to connect to MapR to read and write within a da...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Future consideration

FTM CPS : UI should not allow Manual Return of Transaction with all available Return Reason Codes irrespective of its Record Type (PMR# TS004455925)

Whenever we try to manually return a transaction from UI it allows us to return the transaction with all the available reason codes irrespective of the record type(Credit/ Debit). According CPA Rules, UI should allow Debit and Credit records to be...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Not under consideration

FTM CPS : Manual Returns from UI : Should be validating CPA rules for time limits for Returns. (Ref PMR TS004363369)

CPA Rule for Returning an AFT Transaction requires below date-time range validation. -> for credit transaction, the difference should not be more than 90 days. -> for personal debit transaction, the difference should not be more than 90 days...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Not under consideration

As part of AFT application, we found issues with Automatic Distribution of Outound Transmissions by the distribution scheduler. We raised PMR# TS004448402 for the same. As per the PMR updates, the product is working as designed and required by ACH. But we see there is some scope of improvement here as mentioned in details in the PMR.

On doing test-cases surrounding "Automated Distribution" issue, we found that if a processing batch is "Not Ready For Distribution" and all the transactions inside that batch are either in Held or Rejected status, then Distribution Scheduler works...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Planned for future release

Distribution key support for accelerator-only (AOTs) tables missing

Db2 PTF UI72862 introduced a new DDL feature to support distribution keys for AOTs. This doesn't work in the current Administration Tools Version. The DDL comments containing the distribution key definition for the AOT should to be passed to the a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Use etc/UTC as the default timezone

Currently CDC uses Atlantic/Reykjavik as the default time zone - because "it is equivalent to UTC all year round." Better would be to use etc/UTC because it is UTC. https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/etcetera At some time the Icelandic folks mi...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Collect I/O per LSF job as a resource to be reported to RTM

As number of CPUs per machine rises, the I/O to disk rises proportionally, but the bandwidth to the disk generally does not scale. We have found that in high-cpu machines, the system can grind to a near halt due to overload of the disk I/O. We can...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Knowledge center should load content of previous and next articles automatically

When navigating the Knowledge Center, it is necessary to click on the left panel every single article. Some of them are very short to read, and it takes a lot of time to reload the whole page just for a single article. It would be easy if by click...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration