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Move fields in a UVA/variable activity

I want to able to move a field/variable in a UVA activity inside a DataStage sequence. Currently you can not change the position of a field in a UVA activity. Especially if you have aleady defined 20 Fields and want to add another one on positio...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enable copying of links in the Designer

Currently links can not be copied standalone, you can copy a stage/activity and delete the stage and all links you don't want to achieve the result. Especially for Stages where you have no Mapping folder (i.e. Shared Container, Modify Stage) to ge...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Enable dynamic selection of Parameterset Valuefiles in Sequences

I want to have the possibility to dynamically choose which Valuefile of a Parameterset i use when starting a Job/Sequence inside a Sequence. Currently you can only Propagate the Valuefile choosen when starting the Calling Sequence or choose a fixe...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Enable use of DB2 Compound Statements in DataStage Connector Before/After SQL

As far as I can see, it is not possible to execute a DB2 compound statement in the DataStage DB2 Connector before/after SQL. The reason for this is, that you need to specify a statement terminator other than ";" which is currently not possible. If...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Enable the setting of non key partitioning of a link on the canvas via right click

Currently when Setting the partitioning of a link you have to go inside a stage to the Input and Partitioning Tab, which e.g. in case of the transformer or lookup stages takes 4 clicks to get there (the shortcut via right click on the stage and se...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Enable "Data flow cycle" in Parallel Jobs

Currently "Data flow cycle" are not allowed in DataStage PX as described in the error message IIS-DSEE-TFSR-00035. This maybe is correct for most cases to prevent wrong design, but it would be very usefull when working with parent-child hierarchie...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Deploy SDU as a Service through a NLU enrichment

SDU brings many use case possibilities, however being inside WDS, is limited to use cases where documents are stored. With the ability to deploy the SDU model to NLU, the outputs can be used in a more flexible way.
over 5 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 0 Not under consideration

Provide a method to accurately obtain package executions counts from SMF records

SMF record information for number of times a DB2 package executed is incorrect. As an example, when a package is executed via a thread 10 times DB2 records the SMF information as 1. Our TDS tables are built using SMF information. We use TDS packag...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Protocol the SQL in SYSPRINT for DSNTIAUL

We often use DSNTIAUL to access data. At the moment you can't see the executed SQL in the job output. If DB2 protocol this it will be very helpfull. Proposal is to write it to SYSPRINT ( default ) and/or controll the output DD via a paramter.
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhance db2exfmt

Please enhance db2exfmt to support querytag and queryno so that db2exfmt can format a previous explain when the timestamp of the explain is not known (and -w -1 will not work since it's not the last explain). This would allow scripting of multiple...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration