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Use direct-row access for queries using the RID-function and multi-row fetch

Suppose that you have a query like this: SELECT * FROM table A WHERE RID(A) = 21206417921 This query should use direct-row-access and should quickly determine a result. This is true if you do not use a cursor with multi-row-fetch. If you use a cur...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Improve performance for deferred ALTERs on the same object

Db2 supports 4096 partitions in one TS, we have only 2048 partitions. And we want to alter the keyrnages of all partitions. We recognized that the longer the deferred ALTER queue the slower the current ALTER. This is confirmed by development and i...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

OpenLineage Export to Alation

Thia is in continuation to an earlier Idea, https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DATALIN-I-67, wherein the OpenLineage export is working only when it is connected to an auto-scanned source but the respective Alation data source catalog does...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 5 Under review

Enhancement Request to implement a priority queue for scheduling the MDI/MDE jobs

We request an enhancement to the MDI/MDE jobs schedules to replace the current First-In, First-Out (FIFO) queue with a Priority Queue system. This feature must allow users to define a priority level (e.g., High, Medium, Low) upon job submission an...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

DIS UTIL enhancement for FlashCopy - in COPY as well as in RECOVER

We have converted our copy schedule to FlashCopy. We run 10 jobs in parallel each job have between 500-600 objects in it. The DISPLAY UTILITY does not show the progress of the DFDSS copy. Db2 generates DFDSS commands for 80 datasets, but this is n...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Monitoring of Elastic Search pods can be tricky due to all memory usage

Upon checking the diagnostics and screenshot, this is the warning message: hub elasticsearch-master-esnodes-000 cpd-operands Memory usage has exceeded the 90% threshold. hub elasticsearch-master-esnodes-001 cpd-operands Memory usage has exceeded t...
18 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Enhancing Guidance and Documentation for Db2: Recommendations for New Features and Db2 Performance Resources.

Customer is using Db2 with 4K_DEVICE OS(z/Linux) and they were unsure whether to enable the new DB2_4K_DEVICE_SUPPORT feature and requested an improvement because they did not have enough information to make a decision. Improvement of Guidance on ...
19 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Document that Currently Committed semantics is always enabled on column-organized tables.

Product:Db2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows v11.5 & 12.1 Requirement:Currently Committed semantics is enabled on column-organized tables. This should be described in our Document.Here is a candidate. cur_commit - Currently committed configuration...
19 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Under review

The deployment space should support custome container image.

My customers wanted to deploy llama-3-3-70b on CP4D 5.0.2 as custom foundation model.But it failed because new architectural change (vLLM) was introduced in this llama model that is not supported by CP4D 5.0.2.There is no valid workaround for this...
10 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Add a feature to verify the model details for DoD

We recently encountered an incident where the DoD model was incorrectly mapped, resulting in an incorrect response and impacting the customer's production environment. Unfortunately, the error was only discovered after calling the Model API. (Case...
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 2 Under review