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bjobs -o reserved_mem or bhosts -o reserved_mem

To see how much memory is reserved on a host, we need to parse the bhosts -l <hostname> command, and it doesn't give us info about which job is reserving how much memory. I'd either like to see one of the following: bhosts -o 'jobid reserved...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

REORG TABLESPACE WHERE LIMITKEY BETWEEN X and Y

With the ADD PART and ROTATE, the logical and physical partitions on a tablespace can be out of ORDER. Current REORG at PART Level is for physical partitions, and requires DBA to search catalog to find all required PARTS.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Choosing NPS version during provisioning

It would be helpful to provide flexibility to our customers to chose NPS version while we provision the system. Cloud offering could potentially be used as dev / test environment and would benefit from being at the same level as production (which ...
over 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

OQWT in DSM for Z/OS Query Advisor Enhancement needed

Query Advisor missing obvious SQL predicate datatype inconsistency While researching a production issue in all our production systems with a remote DB2 program, we ran OQT in DSM and found that the QUERY ADVISOR was missing a very obvious and key ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Pins library is not available in reporting

Pin library is needed to use other Cognos tools when prepping the report, for example - how to copy exploration visualization to report?
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improved Db2 backup thread (db2bm and db2med) binding/distribution on NUMA systems

On a large NUMA systems with a very fast storage and a fast backup target memory affinity might affect backup time as well as the overall system performance during the activity. Currently, with the Db2's automatic thread NUMA binding (DB2_RESOURCE...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

Horizontal scrolling of the dialog window

When you have a deep tree with many child nodes in chain the deeper nodes are hidden in the right part, specially if you have opened the "Try it our" panel.It would be much more convenient to have the ability to scroll horizontally through the dia...
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

Add generated always for each row on update as row change SESSION_USER

Currently exists in Db2 to change current timestamp on INSERT and UPDATE with generated statement like: create table myschema.mytable (id int, last_timestamp timestamp not null generated always for each row on update as row change timestamp) inser...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Do not save outputs for report in jobs delivered by email

Hello, when we launch a job with several report views inside and select delivery method as "Send a link to the reports by email", we have to select also "Save the reports" otherwise there is an warning message! By doing this the output will be sav...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CSV or Delimited result set function in SQL

My result set final format needs to be CSV. It would be awesome if I could use SELECT CSV(*) FROM TABLEA to return my result set as a column of CSV format. so for instance I have a requirement to produce a csv file of variable record lengths SELEC...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 0 Future consideration