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Need a function or pseudo-field to return the number of elements in a BSON array

Put in simplest terms, if I have a JSON/BSON record with an embedded array, I need to know how many elements are in the array. I need a function similar to bson_size() (which returns the string length of the total array) which instead returns the ...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

support the configuration of route-maps and filters on BGP setup

We use BGP Setups for connection from IPS serveurs to our switches (client side). We need inter-IPS connections to have better network performances for IPS to IPS data copy. These connections use also BGP protocol. When we add these inter IPS conn...
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Foreign keys to use compound indexes

In the below the foreign key does not use the compound index. Another index is created with adds overhead. create table p1 (t char(4) not null); create unique index px1 on p1(t); alter table p1 add constraint primary key (t) constraint p1_pk; ...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Foreign keys to be able to use compound indexes.

With the following the existing compound index is not used for the foreign key and another index is required. This adds overhead with additional maintenance. create table p1 (t char(4) not null); create unique index px1 on p1(t); alter table p1 ...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

LSF / Extend "span[hosts=xx]" capability to several hosts to optimize cpu utilization in exclusive context

There is no way today to optimize CPU utilization over several hosts, i.e. to specify on how many servers the job should be dispatched, and let LSF use all available cpu on these hosts. This works fine with 1 single host, using cpu range and "span...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

DataStage Ad-hoc SQL execution support

Using IBM DataStage 11.3, I observed that DatStage does not have flexible option to execute SQL and capture its output. I understand its doable if we use ODBC/Sybase stage but I want to execute SQL during sequence activities to decide on course of...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Require Symphony processes to run as non-root in advancewem

Commerzbank is using Windows 2003 Management hosts which is reaching its end of support and we are in situation where we have to move to another OS immediately. So far we have tested it with Windows 2008 but Windows 2008R2 has non-configurable ver...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration

Avoid DSNB260I

many DSNB260I received on DB2, during many many hours, when CDC REFRESH is working. There are apar with parameters for mirroring but not for refresh. (exemple PM57708) - parameters here : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSTRGZ_10.2.1/...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Is a defect

cleanup of Old LOAD_INDEX records from lsb.events

The investigation indicates that LOAD_INDEX record is written to lsb.events when there is change (addition/deletion) in load indices. The records are not automatically cleaned and have no impact to performance unless there are a quite a lot of the...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

IDAA LOADER job with RC=8 due to IDAA load fail

Some of our daily DB2 load Jobs are "DUAL MODE" (DB2 + 4 IDAAs) but we are having issues due to RC=8 when just one IDAA receives error . When the load is sucessful for DB2 and 3 IDAAs but abend for just one IDAA we want to receive at least RC=4 be...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Not under consideration