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Read-Only for Jobs, Sequences, Folders

Supply a Read-Only setting for Jobs, Sequences and / or folders in the repository.
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Support for TurboVNC in opening remote applications through VNC sessions

At the moment only RealVNC and TightVNC is supported on the client side for connection to applications running on the PAC main host. The server can be TurboVNC, but that's something generic, not PAC specific. Ideally we would need support for Turb...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

MERGE INTO statement failed with SQL0104N (inconsistent with DB2 Z/OS)

he following query, which works well on DB2 Z/OS, failed with the syntax error(sql0104n) ................................................ MERGE INTO SME.MEC_GNRL_PRDT_BRNH_BLNC A USING ( VALUES ( :H_iinou_date, :w_irltvr_enty_id, :w_iprdt_id, :H_i...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Supress ALLOW WRITE ACCESS REBUILD for ATM if offline window available

As described in PMR (I will upload all material in PMR), the REORG INDEXES ALL FOR TABLE ... ALLOW WRITE ACCESS REBUILD can cause a deadlock with the application. This behavior is not acceptable and we request a change in this design to avoid such...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Replicate the data into HDFS through Kafka

The current Replication to HDFS through HDFSWeb. It is slow and lack of the ingestion standard. Kafka is the new way, which can standardize the ingestion to HDFS. The following are the reasons:a. can use Avro, which is the good compression algorit...
almost 8 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

request to build v11.5.0.PX OEM package for aix, linux (and sun)

request to build v11.5.0.PX OEM package for aix, linux (and sun)package should include native dbms related libraries and all connectivity related components for oracle (12), teradata (15), java 8support of hadoopNote: while only one Operating Syst...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

create template osh scripts for oracle and teradata connectors

create template osh scripts for oracle and teradata connectors to read, load and update (if applicable) data to/from databases have them fully parameterized to have parameters passed when running oshparameters for : userID, password, database serv...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

osh.exe and orchadmin.exe are overwritten by installer

Customer is using GTK , while patching one of the head node their osh.exe and orchadmin.exe got replaced . so they have to replace these files everytime there is fixpack or rollup installed. This is known limitation http://www-01.ibm.com/support/d...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

API option to omit host/slot arrays from jobInfoEnt

The jobInfoEnt structure contains several string arrays that have per-slot hostnames. For large jobs, this takes quite a bit of space. For programs that simply want to summarize jobs in the queue, this information is superfluous. Please provide an...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

API option to omit command from jobInfoEnt.submit

Some users submit jobs using very long scripts. It appears that these scripts are returned in the 'submit' structure of jobInfoEnt. When simply constructing a summary of batch jobs, this superfluous information can become quite large, potentially ...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration