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use IDAA Loader to create a backup of a very large un-partitioned AOT, alternately allow AOTs to be partitioned

We have a very large table of data which we would like to take off of DB2. We have created an AOT and loaded it from DB2, but we have not been able to create a backup of the AOT. Without a backup we can not remove the table from DB2. This was repo...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration

DMC (Data Managment console) -- Multi factor Authentication (MFA)

Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) is an authentication method that requires the user to provide two or more verification factors to gain access to a resource such as an application, online account, or a VPN. MFA is a core component of a strong ide...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Under review

Monitor activities by the user

Regarding DMC capabilities, I would like to know if there is a possibility to monitor activities by the user. This is very important for our Db2 environment, whether qualified or unqualified table names are used (in case of unqualified names would...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 3 Functionality already exists

Keep 3rd Party Software Current

We have discovered 2 third party products that run inside DSM that were not the current version. One was running with an expired date. Apache Derby and Websphere Liberty software were found to be running old release levels that are not being updat...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

GSLA Resource Loaning - Add the ability to loan to specific users or projects

When a GSLA resource pool is defined for a specific type of workload, it is not practical or desirable to loan to just any other type of job profile. The work-a-round today is to include a resource limit definition to prevent this from occurring. ...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Future consideration

Breakdown of Estimated performance gain percent value for each Recommended Indexes (Used in Plan = "Y") in WhatIf Analysis

As per attached screenshot, there are 4 recommended indexes together provide 42.62% of Estimated Performance again if they are created. Its not possible to pick any one or two indexes instead of all the four indexes. If 1 of the 4 recommended inde...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review

Job packing on GPUs when MIG is enabled

When MIGs (Multi-instance GPU) are enabled on a multi-GPU server, LSF should pack jobs with smaller number of MIGs on one physical GPU to keep a room for jobs with larger number of MIGs. Currently LSF is distributing the jobs on different physical...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Planned for future release

Quick Search should trigger a data refresh

Please refer to case TS014307927 for details. Quick Search on all DMC views does not enforces a new query to either the repository or to the monitored DB. It only searches on pre-loaded data in the browser , which is not a complete set of data. Fo...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Improve AOT backup performance

We're using IDAA loader V 2.1 to run backups for very huge AOTs. When IDAA loader takes a backup from an IDAA AOT it uses SQL multirow fetch to transfer the data from IDAA into a z/OS sequential file. This may work fine for small AOTs. But in our ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DMC for P10 systems (pLinux)

Provide ability to administer, monitor, manage and optimize the performance of IBM Db2 on the P10 systems.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Planned for future release