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Db2 AI should discover and prevent deadlocks, for example in situations where programs that previously have been in deadlock situations are expected to deadlock again.

In deadlock situations, one of the involved programs will be rolled back, resources have been unnecessarily used and DBA’s must spend time investigating deadlocks. In transaction intensive systems deadlocks also may cause response time delays or o...
about 3 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

LSF must not ignore empty groups if they are managed by egroup

When running `badmin reconfig`, LSB ignores lines with empty groups: Aug 25 16:22:20 2025 11385 4 10.1 do_Groups: File /opt/lsf/conf/lsbatch/XXXX/configdir/lsb.users at line 50: No valid member in group <XXXX>; ignoring line this is ok for g...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Needs more information

Make vm_type details in lsb. Acct file

vm_type is field is available only on event file . Can this be made available for Acct file as well? We extract lot of job information from Acct file so it will be good if we get vm_type details in the same file
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

Update GUI to allow scripting-out of GUI actions

In our organization we are not allowed to do manual changes in Production using GUI, all changes have to be scripted, added to the version-management repository, tested in pre-Prod, and executed as a script, this way they are repeatable, auditable...
about 2 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

support job submission from standalone container

currently, when trying to submit a job from a standalone we have a eauth error: Oct 15 17:37:44 2024 1467470 3 10.1 isRetryErrorType: Error type <79> is not defined in LSB_BSUB_ERR_RETRY. Failed in an LSF library call: External authenticatio...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Planned for future release

Dynamic Plan Stability - Capture statements from explain

If we want to capture a certain dynamic statement for dynamic plan stability, the statement has to reside in the dynamic statement cache. Than you have to search for the statement id and with the statement íd you're able to capture a certain state...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to list lsf jobs for multiple users with bjobs -u option

It will be useful for people to check lsf jobs for all their accounts in a single command. bjobs -u "abc xyz" It should list lsf jobs for both abc and xyz.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

SQL DI - include percentile numbers on Data statistics tab post Analyze Data

this is for SQL DI, not sure if I should have raised this under the DB2 for zOS product. In SQL DI workflow we train the model on a table and then post that we can choose the 'Analyze Data' option. If we then go to the Data Statistics tab we are p...
about 2 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow up to 2000 characters in TMPDIR

Some workflows require longer paths for TMPDIR.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 6 Functionality already exists

DCC graphics - Change the range date

We would like to choose a date range. Currently, there is no way to change the range. Db2/zAI path:Distributed connections Priority levels Location Plot statistics Thanks, Remo
over 2 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration