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Enhance DSN1COMP to allow more than one input per job step

Currently only one full copy image may be included in each job step //jobname JOB acct information//COMPEST EXEC PGM=DSN1COMP,PARM='FULLCOPY'//STEPLIB DD DSN=prefix.SDSNLOAD,DISP=SHR//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A//SYSABEND DD SYSOUT=A//SYSUT1 DD DSN=COPY0...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Acceleration of queries that have masked columns referenced in the outermost SELECT

If a column is masked and referenced in the SELECT clause, the queries is no longer a candidate for acceleration. " Outermost SELECT statement must not reference masked columns" https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/daafz/7.5?topic=accelerator-supported-que...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic columns in dynamic reports

Today it is possible to use dynamic reports in Planning Analytics for Excel to create reports with dynamic rows. However it is not possible to also have dynamic columns which I consider to be a major shortcoming, it would be great if this could be...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Limit the no.of report output versions that can be saved in content store

our user community is new to cognos as we are migrating from business objects to cognos. All of the report output versions are saved in BO for some reason in the BO file system. we would like to limit that capability in cognos so users are forced ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

DB2 performance - Hash partition table

On the VLDB - Very Large Database environment.DB2 should support hash partition table to improve performance especially pureScale environment.
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

DB2 database kill

A database may hang and must be killed and this is currently only possible with db2_kill
about 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Spot Instance interruption notice support in HostFactory

AWS will send an interruption notice 2 mins before the Spot Instance is reclaimed. HostFactory currently does not pass the notice to Symphony cluster and application to handle the interruption. We will need this notice to optimize the workload for...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

EC2 Fleet support

In SPCS-I-906, we requested launch template support with EC2 Fleet. Given the time constraint at that time, the scope of the RFE changed to launch template support with Spot Fleet. Now with more requirements from our clients, consulted with AWS, w...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

Allow the LSF Planner to ignore cetain select[] criteria

The current LSF Planner is unable to create a plan if the "bsub -R "select[blah>blah]" ./a.out" select clause does not match any hosts. This is very counter productive. For certain ELIM based resources such as 'freescratch', 'freetmp', etc. The...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow the INELIBIBLE flag to apply to Job Slots and License Scheduler Limits

Currently, the INELIGIBLE flag works for several limit classes. Unfortunately, it does not support either SLOT or License Project limits. These are important for using APS with ELIGIBLE pending time calculations and the queue limit of ELIGIBLE_PEN...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration