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Db2u without OpenShift

We have a cloud-native strategy that Db2u fits better than most other RDBMSes. We also have a fairly mature Kubernetes infrastructure. We would really like to run db2u on native Kubernetes, without OpenShift.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Future consideration

Stop package invalidation after ALTER MAXPARTITIONS

These days in an agile world we have to ALTER PBG spaces on-the-fly to raise the MAXPARTITIONS value. Sadly this ALTER, even though it is an immediate ALTER, sets all dependent packages to VALID = 'N' which is, of course, a disaster.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 8 Not under consideration

Db2 Connect Client steering thread recycle

Enhance Db2 Connect client for distributed workload. problem statement: Today Db2 DDF will close the connection to recycle the thread. This happens conditional (recycle-time limit, after Commit, no open cursors, other conditions). The client will ...
3 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Set default AI Assistant source via customization of roles

In most environments, there are usually many packages nested in various places in team content. Some are AI Assistant relevant, others are not. If we could specify, by Cognos role, the default data source for the AI Assistant specifically, it woul...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Db2 Warehouse in CP4D - NFS v4 support

We are using NFS for Db2 warehouse backups of a Database of 6TB. But doing it with mount nfs v3, no lock option, takes about 3x time that doing it with nfs v4. Doing the backups with nfs v4 works fine in our environment, but in documentation, it s...
7 months ago in Db2 / Warehouse 0 Submitted

dmctop for zLinux

We have several Db2 LUW running on zLinux. Because dmctop is not compatible with zLinux, we're still using db2top but would like to explore new functionalities/features offered in dmctop. Just to clarify: Currently, dmctop does not work on zLinux ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 7 Not under consideration

Allow sort by column measure of crosstab on a dashboard

The Crosstab visualization on a dashboard does not allow for sorting based on the measures displayed in a column.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

PostgreSQL CDC Client should support array fields

Array fields in the PostgreSQL CDC Client are unsupported. They are returned as strings or not at all depending on the configuration due to unsupported data types. When we add [] after any data type definition: i.e. INT -> INT[] means it's now ...
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Enhancement request - IBM Cloud Pak for Data – Redshift Connector

Hi IBM team, Kindly find an enhancement request for - IBM Cloud Pak for Data – Redshift Connector Problem: Using IBM Cloud Pak for Data –Redshift Connector (with WRITE MODE=LAOD), empty source tables are not getting loaded to target AWS-Redshift ....
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Support for Kafka Transformer-provided Library for Spark 3.5

The Kafka Transformer version 5.8 library is built against Spark 3.4.1. Could we please have a Kafka library compatible with Spark 3.5.0 to work with EMR 7.x?
about 1 month ago in StreamSets 0 Under review