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Performance enhancement for admintabinfo

For example, the customer wants to get the name list for tables which are in load pending status, he may issue a SQL statement "select tabschema,tabname from sysibmadm.admintabinfo where load_status='PENDING'", the statement will execute for a ver...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Future consideration

DB2 Catalog and INDEX COMPRESSION statistics (PAGESAVE and BP_UNUSED)

If an index is compressed, it is documented in DB2 catalog table SYSIBM.SYSINDEXES column called ‘COMPRESS’ Tablespace compression is documented in SYSTABLESPACE and SYSTABLEPART. In both tables with column called ‘COMPRESS’ SYSTABLEPART also co...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 8 Future consideration

Lock a dimension member

When is this going to be available?
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

PAW Transaction Log

Add a dropdown for users should not have to input Ability to query a consolidation. PAW only allows leaves to be selected. Auto-fit columns / Ability to resize columns....can't see full context.
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Preinstalled Python libraries

We need some useful libraries in most cases to work with Python in Modeler Flows (Watson Studio AND Watson Machine Learning). It would be nice to have at least the following Python libraries: requests ibm_db ibm_watsonx_ai I know it can be install...
about 2 months ago in SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio 0 Under review

Folder in watson studio for DataStage files

For InfoSphere DataStage user who transition to NextGen DataStage, they find it very messy if they cannot organize DataStage related files in folder.
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Automate the clean up of orphan rows in the database catalogs during the db2ckupgrade processing.

We have been dealing with orphan rows in the database catalogs for many years now. The first tool to deal with this was db2cleancat and it has gone through various iterations to address all of the various flavors of this type of issue and now has ...
5 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Allow EBCDIC collation for column organize tables

Db2 does not support anh collation other than IDENTITY or IDENTITY_16BIT per this link - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=to-restrictions-limitations-unsupported-database-configurations-column-organized-tables. Customers who are wanting ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Future consideration

Db2 partitioned table, set range of partitions to read only or read write mode

Table data is partitioned as specified in the PARTITION BY clause of the CREATE TABLE statement.At this moment if we create partitioned table, we can only set whole table to read only access using SET INTEGRITY FOR table OFF READ ACCESSor let it b...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Dashboard Visualizations (Stackbar, Stackcolumn etc) with Conditional Color Formatting

Conditional formatting based on the data value to show different colored bars for different value ranges is not available for most of the Visualizations. Conditional formatting is currently only available on three Dashboard visualization types; KP...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release