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Recover of freed packages

We would like to be able to recover freed packages. One of our clients always performs bind from a temporary library to avoid cluttering. This means it can require some investigation to find the correct DBRMs, especially if a lot of package were f...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Allow STOP_APPLY functionality when RSS is disconnected from the Primary

Currently Informix supports a Primary and multiple RSS servers. We have one of the RSS servers with the DELAY_APPLY config set to 12H and the 12 hours of logs get stored on the RSS server in the LOG_STAGING_DIR. Informix currently supports rolling...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

SSM Instrumentation

As a debug mode, have a instrumentation mode that can be easily enable on configuration side. Instead of a new binaries that need to be deploy and rollback.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Planned for future release

Line command '?' does not work on all menus, should be made consistent

In the Db2 Administration Tool v12, under the “Db2 system catalog” option, on the “Application Plans” and the “Table Authorizations” menus, the “?” line command does not work like it does on other menus. It returns an “Invalid line cmd” message.
about 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

CDC for z/OS should use the same access control module as DB2 for z/OS.

CDC for z/OS can use only Db2 ACM exit named DSNX@XAC, made accessible to CDC via STEPLIB concatenation. However, starting with DB2 for z/OS v10, customers can use a member name other than DSNX@XAC for the access control exit routine (zPARM ACCESS...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

ASNCLP to support a VALIDATE(NO) option

When creating new replication configurations ASNCLP checks the existence of MQ Queues, qmaps, tables, etc. When deploying to production, we need to have pre-prepared and tested the implementation scripts. However, because ASNCLP validates that the...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Q Apply issue a warning after exception due to OKSQLSTATES

Using OKSQLSTATES certain error conditions can be specified which will let Q Apply document a failing operation in IBMQREP_EXCEPTIONS.Today, Q Apply does not write out a warning into the log file if an exception based on OKSQLSTATES happened.Monit...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

Filter using comparison with Unicode character field

The handling of multibyte character set data has changed with V11.3.3 and some features which worked fine with V6.1 are no longer working correctly. In the present case the customer has row filtering based on a comparison of a column with a string...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Support BIDI in DB2 REST API

we create db2t rest services that select string with hebrew letters from db2 table . The hebrew letters in the result ,display in a opposite direction (In The REST message) letters in db2 'אבגדהו'letters in the result (rest) 'והדגבא'
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Cross-Invalidation due to pcloset/p-lock negotiation avoidance

Problem Statement / Pain points : Whenever there is no R/W activity and PCLOSET threshold is reached, pagesets SWITCH OUT of GBP dependency and the pages in our Bufferpools are cross-invalidated . Thereafter when R/W starts again, pagesets SWITCH ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release