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Rename column should be possible if View is on table

We encountered that Rename column is not possible if a View esists on the appropriate table. We would like to exploit this new function (Rename Column), but we have views, which does not allow that. We already have a similar requirement MR02141152...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance high availability for partition by growth tablespaces.

Real-life scenario is described in the first paragraph below. I included a subset of it. The issue resulted in critical system outage caused a partition by growth dataset that hit max extents prior to hitting the DSMAX for the partition tablespace...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Introduce or Change Reorg for managing commits when generating Identity column values during the Reorg

When an identity column is added to an already existing and populated table, the table is put into a Reorg Pending status and thus unavailable to the applications. When the Reorg is run to resolve the status it generates the identity column values...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

we need Migration path for Teradata -> Snowflake connector via RJUT ( Rapid job update tool)

We are looking for a solution for the change of Teradata connector which are used in out DataStage jobs , to Snowflake connector as a part of planning the lift and shift of KVH1 towards cloud. Can you please investigate from your side , if this ca...
7 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Is a TI process syntaxically correct, as a property in the REST API GET response

In the TM1 REST API specification for a TI process, we get a lot of useful information. However, what would be useful too is a property (binary) that says: "Process is syntaxically correct or not." In the TM1 REST API, we can use the endpoint tm1....
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW: book shortcut

Due to security/permissions reasons we sometimes need to place one book to multiple folders in Reports & Analysis. However, editing of each copy separately is not sustainable. So, we propose to implement shortcuts for books. Origin book would ...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Extract or export kpi/sai dashboard information from Safer Payments

Using the Dashboard we can see and track some information related to MCI latency (average, maximum, violation ...), transactions message rate, FLI buffer usage ... but existing display makes things complicated to track them on monthly basis and ge...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Command to display the DB2 early code

Customer wants to apply new early code with REFRESH DB2, EARLY by automation software. To be sure that they apply new code, they want to display the early code before the REFRESH DB2 command. Unfortunately this command is not yet implemented, and ...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

RLF DSNRLMTxx table field RLFIP allow subnet wildcard

we have a need to restrict threads with RLF by specifying userid and source IP with a subnet wild card. the source ips change with each "logon". In order to restrict all possible ips under a given subnet, we would need to enter 255 X 255 ips. allo...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Rearchitect the colgroup processing to be more granular using multiple sorts as opposed to a single sort or more intelligently avoid the colgroup sort altogether (when possible)

Looking at the job output you sent in, we can see that there are 18 colgroups specified. Based on the current design, we have a single sort for colgroup(s). There are 184310123 rows unloaded The no. of the rows passed to the single dstats s...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration