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Full package support for Restful services

A restful service contains one and only one SQL statement and is, simply put, a mini-static package. It was delivered with a couple of problems. Firstly, the only way to tell if this static package is a restful service is to look at the HOSTLANG c...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Future consideration

Add the ability to upload Db2 transaction log files to TSM that had been moved manually by DBA

We use Db2 log archiving to TSM servers. No failover archive path has been set yet. Under rare circumstances we faced situations where log archiving to TSM does not work or slows down and the active log path fills up. To prevent disk full situatio...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Allow offline backup to automatically force all Allow offline utilities such as backup, restore, rollforward to auconnections

Modern enterprise applications are often using connection pooling for database access. Connection pools are usually monitored by application servers, and dead connections are reestablished with minimal delays..For offline backup operations, this l...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Allow to create a snapshot with an unlimited number of assets

As said in the short name, I think the limit at 100 assets maximum per Snapshot is not realistic for a production environment with a bunch of users...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

PAW - dynamic images

There is a PAW book with Selector and Image, and URLs stored as the dimension attribute. It would be great to be able synchronize the image widget with the selector. So when the client clicks on the element in the Selector, the URL gets passed to ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

use IDAA Loader to create a backup of a very large un-partitioned AOT, alternately allow AOTs to be partitioned

We have a very large table of data which we would like to take off of DB2. We have created an AOT and loaded it from DB2, but we have not been able to create a backup of the AOT. Without a backup we can not remove the table from DB2. This was repo...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Set Partition Index, DPSI to the same DSSIZE as Tablespace when converting to RPN and ALTER TABLESPACE DSSIZE is after ALTER TABLESPACE PAGENUM RELATIVE

In numerous cases it is impossible to put the ALTER TABLESPACE DSSIZE in front of the ALTER TABLESPACE PAGENUM RELATIVE due to the number of partitions and page size. Currently this only works with the following. After the reorg materialization th...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Write Failed Lock Escalation Attempts to Master

Currently, when Lock Escalation succeeds, a message is written to the Master Log with details. However, when a Lock Escalation attempt fails (due to a timeout or deadlock), nothing is written. This sort of timeout or deadlock can be difficult to d...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Include the subcode along with the Adabas Response Code

Please consider to include the subcode along with the Adabas Response Code in the error message. For example, the below error message displays only the Adabas Response Code 9 but does not display the subcode. As per Adabas Messages and Codes Manua...
4 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Save changes in JGATE without having to connect

In JGATE for DVM, if an advanced parm is modified, JGATE does not allow the change to be saved without a successful connection. In our environment, we do not have access to the passwords, as they are stored as encrypted passwords in the DVM Global...
4 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration