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RTM: Need to provide 3 day floating window for idle jobs

To setup the Idle job floating window in RTM, it is missing 3 days. The selection proves 1, 2, 4 days only. Need to have 3 days item also
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

FED DB2 WIN 10.5 - MS SQL - DATE & TIME Columns converted to VARCHAR in DB2 NICKNAMES

IBM DB2 LUW Support Team asked me to use the SQL Server driver 6.01.7601.17514 for my FEDERATION between a DB2 10.5 FP6 WINDOWS and MS SQL2012.This, to solve an issue with bad conversion of VARCHAR & VARBINARY (max).Now, I've another issue rel...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Support for parallel execution of complex DML statements

Intra-query parallelism does not provide any benefits for the "INSERT ... SELECT..." statements, even when insert is performed into a temporary table. While preparing a PoC for the customer planning to use DB2 for LUW in 1C:Enterprise application ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

percentage support for numOfSlotsForPreloadedServices

currently, numOfSlotsForPreloadedServices only support an absolute slots number, in the case of different resource plan, it is very hard to predict how many slots I will have available. Thus, a percentage is preferred. E.g., I'd like to prestart 5...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

VARCHAR_FORMAT("A"."DT_EVT",'MM/YYYY') IDAA support

the problem here is that DT_EVT is a date not a timestamp column VARCHAR_FORMAT("A"."DT_EVT",'MM/YYYY')What db2 does is add 00:00:00 as a time.
over 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

[Security and Access Control] Multi-head - LSF submission user needs to have access to symphony GUI and view/control own jobs

LSF job submission user can use CLI to view/control own jobs, they need to have the same functionality to view/control own jobs from GUI.The currently RBAC does not meeting this requirement.
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 3 Not under consideration

TIMESTAMP(12) precision IDAA support

TIMESTAMP(12) is not a supported data type yet by IDAA. That's why the query reference the timestamp column with greater than time precision 6 digits will *not* be offloaded.
over 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Customer has several Enhancement for use cases with Analytic Server 2.0

Customer followed the steps as documented in the following link to configure Analytic server 2.0 with a Hive database. Here is the link onhow to configure data sources."http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSWLVY_2.0.0/analytic_server_use...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 0 Not under consideration

db2stop quiecse for single partition

Be able to issue db2stop quiesce for a single partition server. Currently its for a single partition server only.... Rob Lemeiux
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Alternate load copy path

New option to specify an alternate load copy path during a load of a table.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration