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Improvement of FlashCopy Load on a PBR

When loading with LOG NO a PBR at tablespace level, all partitions will be copied by FlashCopy and not only the ones that were updated. But when FLASHCOPY NO is specified, only the partitions that were update will get COPY PENDING flag. The FlashC...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Add a Trace Security in order to understand how a right is evaluated by the engine

As for business rules, PAL/TM1, security could be a mix of data and/or rules on the system security objects. For business rules, we can use the "trace calculations" which is really a great feature. For security, we can only use... our brain so a "...
about 1 year ago in Analytics Engine 3 Not under consideration

Allow IAM access for server to S3 to work for Db2 backups

AWS allows a server or container to have an IAM role that allows access to S3 and other resources without authentication. However, cataloging a storage alias requires a key and secret key to work, regardless of whether the IAM role is set up for t...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Future consideration

Copy Conditional Styles from one report to another

In case of developing a group of reports within one project the styles the design of data tables is supposed to be the same. And it is hardly convinient to create the same Conditional Styles in every single report when you have dozens of them. In ...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Add %ADD_MONTHS Expression to Support Rolling Date Filtering

We need to be able to replicate only the data created within last 12 months based on the CREATE_TSTMP column. There is a workaround: have a Java exit for this callable via %USERFUNC. However, even that solution is not provided by IBM and has to be...
30 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Make Lost Connection Errors Recoverable

Currently, when CDC replication fails on Target side due to Connection Reset (possibly due to a firewall issue) the error is marked non-recoverable. This causes a replication outage that requires manual restart of the affected subscriptions. To av...
30 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Big Query connector uses legacy API by default which is adding 90 minutes of wait time for the streaming buffer to be flushed for DML operations to be performed. We need functionality in BQ connector to be able to use Storage write API to avoid this wait time

If a BQ job abends for some reason due to connectivity issue etc, the application team has to wait for 90 min to restart the job 2nd time. if this issue occurs in critical flow, it is causing SLA miss which is causing business impact
about 1 month ago in Connectivity 1 Submitted

Future roadmap on the Database

I would appreciate it if you could help me with the following inquiries: 1) Will OpenPages support RDS Oracle DB for future releases in On-Prem environments? If so, what will be the supported DB versions? 2) Currently, the supported version of Ora...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 1 Under review

Tracking refactored code blocks as they are sliced in refactoring assistant

When slicing code blocks in the Refactoring Assistant, it would be helpful if there was some tracking so that the user knows what has been sliced previously. Even if this tracking is just for the current session or workbook, this would be helpful....
about 2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

PAW - Change default for TI parameter to String from Number

In PAW, when adding a new parameter, it defaults to the Number format. However, as a developer, there is often a need for a String parameter rather than a Number. While there is an option to change the format for multiple parameters, it retains th...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release