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Storing of enriched/additional information outside of the standard data model

in DNB we have to save a lot of information outside of the out of the box FTM Data Model. The main strategies available out of the box are: - use object values/id references --> this leads to a quick proliferation in key value objects which imp...
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Add similar feature to DB2 - Oracle Database, Edition Based Redefinition (EBR) feature

Oracle Database has Edition Based Redefinition (EBR) feature to minimize/eliminate downtime through schema versioning. It would be very useful for DB2 to have a similar feature to allow adding or modifying new or existing data structures without d...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

While scheduling the disposition sweep, ICN does not allow to schedule the sweep on Quarterly basis. It only provides us the option to schedule the sweep hourly, Daily, Monthly and yearly.

While scheduling the disposition sweep, ICN does not allow to schedule the sweep on Quarterly basis. It only provides us the option to schedule the sweep hourly, Daily, Monthly and yearly. Customer heavily relies on scheduling the sweep on Quarter...
over 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration

Support for Avro Logical Data Types in File Connector Stage

Using Datastage 11.5.0.1 "File Connector Stage", We ask to implement the mapping from an input field defined as Decimal (17,2) to a target avro field defined as "type":["bytes","null"],"logicalType":"decimal","precision":"17","scale":"2" into the ...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Export should have nocoldel or coldelx20

Db2 should allow an export without characters for columns not characters, or space as column delimiter. Something like: export to myfile.csv of del modified by nochardel nocoldel select * from mytable There is something to change the column de...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Using Fuzzy matches for Intent detection

Fuzzy matching is good at picking up single or plural versions of the same word in our Entities. However, we noticed that if the user request has the exact match with the entity, the correct intent, which uses this entity, is identified with the h...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Allow AUTHID translation for a trusted connection with a trusted context from DB2 z/OS to a remote DB2 LUW subsystem

A DBA for client that I support is requesting the ability to allow AUTHID translation for a trusted connection with a trusted context from DB2 z/OS to a remote DB2 LUW subsystem when SECURITY_OUT=P and USERNAMES=S IN SYSTEM.IPNAMES table and TYPE=...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

DFD Icons

We need that read-only dfd (Datastage Flow Designer) users are not able to click the icons and links corresponding to the operations they cannot perform. For example, We would like that read-only user not to be able to click on the job creation link.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support column level filters in SQL

LAT supports filtering on column level in detail reports, but the filter criteria is coded in a proprietary syntax that does not support SQL constructs (e.g. IN list). We use it to specify column level filters in SQL Syntax in our current tool. We...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Proper Error notifications for CDC capture and apply SQLCODE

We recently had issue where CDC plan on Zos Capture was bound to a wrong collection and resulted in one capture referencing the metadata of another capture. Case TS008690724. when this happened a +100 sqlcode was shown in the capture log but there...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release