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support queue level container parameters

We need to be able to use the EXEC_DRIVER mechanisms in a way beyond bapp, as there is only one bapp allowed in a job submission. Many of our automated (and locked) job flows already request a bapp, so they cannot use another bapp.
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Extend SessionScheduler being able to manage small parallel application (size up to one node)

Today we have applications/software running in serial mode via session scheduler (runtime per task <<10min) with up to 10000 tasks. These applications/software will migrate to parallel usage soon and we want to keep the SessionScheduler func...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Enable 'include' function to reduce lsb.* file complexity

We have very huge user group (due to hierarchical fairshare) configurations in lsb.users that are generated by tools, and would like to use something like an include statement to add them to the main file.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Need clearer / more detailed DESCRIPTIONS of the SMF fields written by the DB2 CDC task

A number of the Descriptions of the fields of the SMF records written by the DB2 CDC z/OS process are not clear and would benefit by providing more more and/or more detailed DESCRIPTIONS. These descriptions are currently located in the Knowledge C...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

View Tabular data in Excel format

See tabular data in different format (Excel) other than HTML in 11.1.7 ? We have a work around provides the data in Excel, however, it takes twice as long. The query runs once for HTML, then has to run again for Excel. If we have the option to run...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Delivered

Enhance SPT01: max partition to more than 1, and Sysadm can amend the PART Size from 64gb to 32gb .

The Tablespace is in VSAM-E format with 252 Extends in already 32Gb size. It cannot create the 2nd Partition .Because the max partition of SPT01 is 1 and the partition size is 64gb. When application sharing the testing environment of UT, ST, SIT ,...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

When data is scanned using Quick Scan, customer would like to see options to be able to publish the data into a specific catalog and not the default catalog

Data Security Officer would like to restrict access to certain asset information to a group or division of people. Being able to publish discovered assets into catalog would be a big step towards achiveing zoning.
almost 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Add IBM Pervasive Encryption (PE) support to IBM Optim for on z/OS

Many z/OS customers deploy IBM Pervasive Encryption (PE) dataset encryption to protect their sensitive PCI and PII data. IBM Optim data extract datasets contain such sensitive PCI and PII data unloaded from Db2 for z/OS tables and must be encrypte...
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 3 Delivered

Function inside Planning Analytics that will track user login

Function inside Planning Analytics that will track user login and accordingly System administrator should be able to block the user login who have not logged inside Planning Analytics for X number of days. This will help to extract the dormant u...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Allow for 16 IFI trace outputs to run concurrently

When a program starts a trace that is to go to destination OPX, there are currently only 8 of these that can be run at a time. This can be somewhat constraining (and has at times caused us some issues). Could this limit be bumped to 16 with the de...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered