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Change in DSNTIAD code in order to get an abend in case of embedded comments

Our application developers use DSNTIAD to UPDATE tables also in the production environment. If they run a query with DSNTIAD and a comment embedded we'd like the job to abend.
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Request to include certain environment parameters during job submission

Currently, we are unable to submit environment parameters to a MapReduce service in the following manner: // Set TEXTANALYTICS_HOME environment variable on each task's JVM - required by ActionAPI conf.set ("mapreduce.map.env", "TEXTANALYTICS_HOME=...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 5 Not under consideration

Avoid engine crash during page reads after hardware failure

the index was corrupted by a hardware malfunction, it was not corrupted by Informix, so there were very likely index pages that had been zeroed out, or had garbage on them. When engine try to access the corrupted index or data page it crashes de i...
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Targeted Refresh for z/OS Connect server

Currently, when implementing web services, the final step is to refresh z/OS Connect. The refresh will make available all web services that have been added to DVM regardless of whether the supporting area want them to be available. For example, ar...
about 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect Refresh during import

Currently, when new web services are added, z/OS Connect must be refreshed to recognize the existence of a new operation or group of operations. The refresh must be done by issuing a REST call to /dvs?Refresh. Ideally, there should be a way to inc...
about 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

LOAD card with RESUME and REPLACE on same table

Today there's no error message/info message that if you run a load with REPLACE and RESUME on the same table in the same job then you'll run into problem with missing Index-entries for the table
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Is a defect

Ability to version contro...

No description provided
about 8 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

FORMAT INTERNAL with REORG DISCARD

REORG with DISCARD does not support FORMAT INTERNAL like UNLOAD and LOAD. REORG with DISCARD is used in many use cases for Archiving OLD data. Having FORMAT INTERNAL in REORG with DISCARD would be good if DISCARD dataset is in INTERNAL format for ...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

information server sap pack - need encryption with idoc stage

In the Information Server pack for sap, the abap extract stage has an SNC capability-to encrypt data. Need the same ability with the idoc extract and idoc load stages.
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 1 Functionality already exists

Don't logout user when user has no permission accessing Information Asset Display

Don't logout user when user has no permission accessing Information Asset Display. Currently it intentionally takes user back to ICP4D login page. This behavior is not consistent with other page, and it is confusing to user. It should take user ba...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration