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Online restore of a range partition. Db2 takes a lock on the whole table during the restore.

I have a range partition table with NO global indexes. The partitions have their own tablespaces. Db2 takes a Z lock on the whole table when restoring a single partition.We thought that we could restore a partition online and that all the other pa...
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DB2 HADR Standby Database act as CDC Source

We use DB2 ,DB2 HADR and CDC in our production system. Now we can only use the DB2 HADR primary database as CDC source. DB2 HADR standby database can not support acting as CDC source now. So we hope add a new feature,ie : DB2 HADR Standby database...
over 6 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Support more granular system parameter settings

Support the ability to set system parameters at the application level.For example, allow parameters to be specified based on specific:- plan- package (specify collection, package)- authid or role- client info properties DB2 should have the ability...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Schedule FAP data mart start / stop and update structure

Functionality to schedule FAP update structure and full publish ( data mart start and stop). Currently user need to regularly go to FAP client and click update structure. Case Number: TS000073673
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Return Metadata with Get Document Details

The current (v2) Discovery API (version date: 2023-03-31) does not return any document metadata when providing Document Details. We use metadata for classification and when returning results to WatsonX.ai and WatsonX Assistant for conversational s...
4 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

simplified code path for RI checking

We had an interesting discussion with the development team about this. As I already mentioned, the RI code path is quite different than the R-scan which may use one or more predicates to evaluate the qualifying rows. The main module that is drivin...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Folder in watson studio for DataStage files

For InfoSphere DataStage user who transition to NextGen DataStage, they find it very messy if they cannot organize DataStage related files in folder.
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

Provide alerts at least 1 month prior to having certificates expire.

CP4D and its components have lots of certificates which expire. These certifications expire without notification and causes downtime for clients which then adds a ripple effect throughout the client, IBM account team, support and multiple escalati...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Grid view/ dashboard filters

Every user has to set up their own dashboards which is time consuming. If we can share/copy others filters, this would enable users to create dashboards much quicker.
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Remove Workflow Validation Dropdown when there are no validations for an Action

When you include Guidance text on a stage of a workflow it automatically includes a dropdown for validating the actions that can take place on the workflow. In a lot of cases the actions do not have validations so these dropdown menu items serve n...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Future consideration