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Custom steps in remediation workflows

Possibility of including refinery jobs, datastage jobs, remote API (eg: create a Jira ticket..), ... or other integrations in one of the steps of the remediation flow.
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Global Correlation ID for VSAM/IAM and DB2 updates made by CICS transaction

It would be good if CDC provides global correlation ID to correlate DB2 and VSAM/IAM updates made by CICS transaction in a unit of work. For example: If CICS txn (TXN1) is updating the FILE1 (VSAM/IAM) and TABLE1 in a same unit of work, we are loo...
8 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Submitted

Automate the clean up of orphan rows in the database catalogs during the db2ckupgrade processing.

We have been dealing with orphan rows in the database catalogs for many years now. The first tool to deal with this was db2cleancat and it has gone through various iterations to address all of the various flavors of this type of issue and now has ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 2 Submitted

A utility to compare database tables between production and replica databases for NRS v3

A utility to compare database tables between production and replica instances. We run NRS 3.x and early implementations were very unreliable with silent failures. nzdr does not give any information on state of the tables in the replica. We develop...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

CORS settings should be controled by user in IBM Cloud DB2 service( like as Cloudant ).

In IBM Cloud, we can use DB2 not only via JDBC/ODBC but also via REST API(HTTP API): https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/db2-on-cloud/db2-on-cloud-v4 This is unique and nice feature. This could be a reason to choose DB2( than MySQL or PostgreSQL, .. ). ...
10 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Cobol Explain to be saved as Annocations in AD

It would be useful to be able to save the COBOL Explain text as a annotation in ADDI. Today you can save/insert it as a comment in the cobol code. But if we could save it as an annotation in ADDI, then the explanation would also be available to bu...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

DISPLAY DB Command CLAIMERS does not list LOAD utility

Our DBAs have realized that when a load job is running against a tablespace and the load utility is active, the display claimer did not show the jobname that are executing the job. However , the display use does show the job name. For example: -DI...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Is a defect

Questionnaires via REST API

Questionnaires via REST API Currently there is no REST API to pull the Questionnaire Question and responses using the REST API. only option is Cognos. Which is not helpful to get the real-time data.
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Under review

Ability to stop runaway BigSQL query without access to OpenShift pods

Using Cloud Pak for Data as a service, one should be able to stop a runaway BigSQL query without access to OpenShift pods. Per IBM recommendation, we are using BigSQL to access parquet files stored in Cloud Object Storage. This is supported in Clo...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 2 Future consideration

Add functionality to crosstab summaries in dashboards

I had a user wanting to show a summary at the after the columns, but not under the rows. It is all or nothing today. It would be nice to be able to add summaries like you can in reports.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted