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Better problem determination when error message is returned to the job submitter

When running a loader job that fails on authorization the submitter of the job does not get a proper message. The message emitted by the IDAA Loader is "HLOU5715E Unknown error during IDAA validation". This is in par with the famous Microsoft Wind...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable "overwrite encoding as binary" for CLOB

We have several CLOB columns in DB2 that contain binary data. Due to 0x00 Byte values we can't transfer them into a TEXT column in postgreSQL (0X00 is not accepted in utf-8). The Option "overwrite encoding as binary" on the CLOB Column in "Db2 for...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Multiple hadr standbys in ASYNC mode

At present HADR claims to replicate to multiple standbys. While technically true this is practically false. Since all standbys past the 1st one must be in SUPERASYNC once the additional standbys 'glitch' up they stop processing logs and never proc...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Alert user about abnormal tablespaces on standby

In a HADR configuration typically customers use db2pd -hadr on the standby to monitor the state. On the standby if there is a problem with one of the tablespaces it'll be marked invalid and future log records against the tablespace will be skipped...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Report Expression function "status" should catch out of scope data items

When building dynamic reports, it is sometimes necessary to build expressions that you know will fail in certain scenarios. In these cases having an error catching mechanism, like status, is incredibly useful. In this case I would like to be able ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Inverted Axis

When doing visualizations for management, typically expenses are a common topic of comparison, but with most bar/line visualizations having negatives farther away from the axis titles, it ends up looking wrong or not appealing. Allowing for the ax...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Block hosts per resource status or add hosts blocking in Notebook configuration

Conductor failing to start notebooks remain in tentative as it is unable to detect the host mem/cpu usage. Need the feature in Notebook configuration to block hosts per resource status or add hosts blocking in Notebook configuration.
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 4 Future consideration

Folder Share

We have the Book Share option. What I would like to see is a Folder Share option as well. I would like to get the URL for a specific Folder. Having a budget model with multiple books for each business unit. These is no way of directing users to th...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improved logging for SD TCP Backlog to aid troubleshooting

Requirements: Dynamic turn on/off with the feature being enabled by default. Log Format: Similar to VEMKD, may include more metrics such as queue size Data to be logged:1. Acceptance rate per channel 2. Performance of the accept (i.e. SSL handshak...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Planned for future release

The saved compare results doesn't include the tablespace or alias. (Panel ADBPCRS)

The documentation states that the Save Compare Results only work on certain objects. This should be expanded to all supported objects. Priority would be given to database and tablespace followed by aliases then all other Db2 supported objects. A c...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

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