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OPL csv import/export

Generating .dat is not that elegant.Importing/exporting from Excel is slow.Csv format is often used for other applications as well.
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Delivered

Provide means to limit number of retries following unable to establish connection

This idea is related to real life scenario we encountered in production - we raised a case but we were advised CDC is working as designed and we should raise an AHA idea. Currently we have a number of subscriptions defined/active across a number o...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Make "Open Console" Suggest You Need to Create DMC Instance

When you create a DB2 Warehouse instance in a fresh install of CP4D 4.5 and then click on the "Open Database" you initially get just a blank screen. This screen should let the user know that they need to create an instance of Data Management Conso...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Delivered

FORCE for LOAD

We are currently depending on vendor software that has the capability of cancelling DB2 threads when entering the switch phase of a load. This capability has saved the application team hundreds of incident tickets nightly as they perform loads daily.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Delivered

REBIND timeout option

We would like to request an enhancement to the REBIND command, to be able to specify a time or timeout parm to govern how log REBIND will wait.We're aware of the DB2 11 Bind Concurrency feature with PKGREL_COMMIT(YES)We're also aware of the REBIND...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

We need c++17 and C++20 as well as C++23 support on RedHat Linux 8.9 kernel 4.18.0-513.18.1.el8_9.x86_64 for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.1

We need c++17 and C++20 as well as C++23 support on RedHat Linux 8.9 kernel 4.18.0-513.18.1.el8_9.x86_64 for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.1. We need to run our compute hosts on Linux and we need support for c++17, c++20, and c++23
8 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 6 Delivered

CDC zOS Support Index with Identity Columns

Last week, during our testing of table replication with identity columns, it was discovered that CDC on zOS was unable to utilize primary indexes containing identity columns for replication. Since many tables utilize the identity column as the pri...
8 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Delivered

Add option to use manage option SMSDSEXIST in ICKDSF for option : Reinit Space Efficient Volumes

Our site have an option to protect volumes with datasets from INIT with ICKDSF and when we run Recovery expert with option : Reinit Space Efficient Volumes it fail with messages : 09:58:46 ARYS278I - Task 01 - Unit 9A01 was initialized with volser...
8 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

SSM restart by SD

Use case: we should ask SD try to restart SSM should it detect non-responsive SSM after a certain time of period (or after tried a number of times). Not only after detecting SSM's PID is gone or the underlying network connection is broken. The len...
8 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Delivered

Data Module - Select Unmatched Column Values

Right now, the data module has an option of joining 2 tables using a join key but restricts to only match the values of the selected columns but does not allow 'not equal to' operator or 'Greater than or lesser than' operator.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered