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New pseudo-delete zparms

We've been told that pages trigger pseudo-delete cleanup when they become > 4% free entries. Please make this % a zparm. We would also like the calculation that triggers pseudo-delete cleanup to use another new zparm for the minimum # of entrie...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Quick Report missleading row limit just show as many lines as the limit in the options

When I open a Quick report in planning analytics for Excel from a view which has 700 row, than it just show the maximum row limit rows as default 500 And there is no sign to show there is more data in the base view.In the Exploration it works righ...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support DECFLOAT in federated data type mapping between Db2 and Db2 for z/OS

Add support for the DECFLOAT data type allowing NICKNAME creation against a Db2 for z/OS table with a DECFLOAT column. Without this support, the CREATE NICKNAME fails and a workaround is required to map the data.
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Fluid Query 0 Not under consideration

Lightweight API to get MDS demand and allocation stats

Lightweight API to get MDS demand and allocation stats
about 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Planned for future release

Parallelize the logs in the online backup image

If you have a large amount of transaction logs created during an online backup operation, and logs are include in the backup image, at the end of the backup Db2 adds the log files to the backup file. Right now it appears to be a serialized operati...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Enable Business Glossary option in data modules

Hello, It would be very helpful to be joined to search Business Glossary (or internal Wiki) to retrieve additional information about the fields and tables in a data module. For the time being, this option only exists in the Report module, but it w...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DataStage connection to Universe DB 11.2.5

Hi,We are looking to connect the Universe DB 11.2.5 as source from the Datastage 11.5.0.1 in server job In reference to the PMR 85163,227,000 suggestion we are opening this Enhancement request
over 8 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Add View Support to temporal time tables

Add support for views to tables which contain both SYSTEM and BUSINESS TIME. For single table views, please limit restrictions on ISRT / UPDT so that the view can be utilized in much the same manner as any other view.
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

bmod jobs for per queue, or per user

Currently bmod runs per job so if there are 20000 running jobs, I've to run bmod 20000 times, one for each job. Can bmod have functionality like bkill to update bulk jobs , based on certain criteria like for user, queue, hostgroup etc ?
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 3 Not under consideration

Allow for default parameters on dynamically executed utilities

Sometimes while executing a job from a compare on two objects GOC will dynamically execute a utility. In my case this is a REBUILD INDEX. We need the ability to add additional parameters to this such as SORTDEVT.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration