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reduce I/O activity to /etc/services upon each connect

Using filemon, we see 191 accesses to /etc/services for each Connect statement. It seems this file should only be accessed once or twice. This has been verified by IBM personnel with ticket TS001677150.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Add support for Finnish language

Finnish language as an example - we have build support for finnish and swedish language for Watson Explorer (oneWEX and AC Miner) using external language parser. There is guidelines available internally to IBM and BPs how to do it. We believe our ...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release

Order Execution of Autonomic Actions by Object Size RFE 122603

Descriptionhttp://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=122603 All Autonomics actions with the same priority value to be executed by the Autonomics Director for DB2 need to be executed in ascending order of object size....
over 5 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Backport .NET Core API Support to Symphony 7.1.1

Some of our customers would like to use the Symphony .NET Core service API. The specific DLL they need is Platform.Symphony.Soam.NetCore_64.dll.But it seems like the drivers exist only for Symphony 7.2.1.1, which is not the version we use currentl...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Incorporate Query Monitor Style Capture Into Base Db2 Product

Incorporate Query Monitor-like data capture into base Db2 product. This would greatly improve the stability of DB2 itself and might provide IBM supported API to the tool vendors.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard page prompt: Being able to setup Direction of the items such as across and down

Dashboard page prompts, user should be able to setup the Direction of the items such as across and down Instead of having a list that shows only a few items than need to scroll down, would prefer to have a choice to have at least a few across. Wou...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

NCHR for db2 LUW (new scalar function)

Oracle supports NCHR function. To migrate oracle application, we need this scalar function. NCHR returns the character having the binary equivalent to number in the national character set. The value returned is always NVARCHAR2. This function is e...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Enable user set Explorer reports timeout limit

Now the Explorer reports timeout limit is 30s, we hope it default as 120s.And, we hope the Explorer reports timeout limit can be set by user.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

DB2 accounting information

We are using the DB2 accounting information as a source for resource usage counts. We use for this purpose the accounting fields described in DSECT DSNDQXST (generated with the macro DSNDQXST). We find counts for the SQL statements SELECT, INSERT,...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

LIBOR replacement in ISDA contracts between Banks and their clients

Most derivatives contracts currently written use ISDA contractual language and most of these also refer to LIBOR as the benchmark interest rates. By 2021 it has been mandated that LIBOR will be replaced, so there is a massive repapering exercise a...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration