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High number of LOCK reqeusts against one LOCK1 structure need relief

We have a very high volume of lock requests against LOCK1 CF structure. This number increases month by month. Of course, the LOCK1 structure does not scale infinitely, therefore we need a relief here.
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

watsonx.ai to support OpenShift running on virtualized environments (here VMWare)

As it turned out in a recent conversation with watsonx.ai Product Management, watsonx.ai running on OpenShift on VMWare is currently not officially supported. OpenShift on VMWare is a pretty common deployment scenario. We need to get this resolved...
14 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Enahncement to DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT setting

Regarding the use of DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT=ON. This env variable will defer memory commitment, asynchronously in the background, for faster completion of ACTIVATE DATABASE. This helps to improve the database activation for large memory systems w...
3 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

Pixtral 12B - Multiple Image Support

According to the Model Card of Pixtral 12B (Pixtral 12B Model Card), there is support for sending multiple images in a single message. However, the WatsonX.AI API does not currently support this feature, resulting in the following error message: "...
5 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review

Ability to flush or clean up catalog cache

Larger catalog-related changes, like revoking privileges from many users at the same time, are also updating the catalog cache. The cache may hold invalidated or "orphaned" entries. Those entries are only removed in an asynchronous fashion. Until ...
4 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

-DISPLAY PROCEDURE - Show All Stored Procedure Types

Show Native Stored Procedures in -DIS PROC regardless of DEBUG mode. The existing limitation becomes a monitoring showstopper as more and more Native SQL SPs are utilized in Production.
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Make the UI actually usable

The UI is a big handicap working with this product. Critical information is consistently cut off, e.g. • In the transformer stage, the derivation/expression (arguably the most critical information) is barely visible. • In column listings, column n...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 2 Under review

RUNSTATS TABLESPACE on one TS partition scans all partitions of partitioned indexes

We encountered that the RUNSTATS on one TABLESPACE partition via RUNSTATS TABLESPACE ... PART or via LISTDEF INCLUDE TABLESPACE ... PARTLEVEL scans all partitions of a partitioned index. Therefore the runtime and the zIIP time of the jobs are extr...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Improve auditing possibilities

As Db2 for z/OS users, we want to use the AUDIT POLICY functionality to support internal and external auditors and provide the proof of proper allowed access to Db2 z/OS objects, especially in the form of SQL queries using input host variables (“f...
14 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Print LOAD Report on separated DDNAME

During the execution of the LOAD utility, when a record is discarded, it appears first in the classification phase (limited to 2000 occurrences) and then in the load report (no limit). We want the report to be printed in a different DDNAME, differ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Under review