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Online remove member

Request to support online member removal from pureScale
over 9 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Future consideration

Synchronize HISTORY file with the TSM server object list.(RIMS)

Since the objects on the TSM server are expired remotely, DB2 is not aware of this because the local HISTORY file does not sync with TSM. What we are requesting is a method to synchronize DB2's HISTORY file with the TSM server object list. This wi...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Improvement in the command get diagnostics

Improve the command get diagnostics command so that we can access through variables to the following information : - the statement SQL text - the package name, stored procedure specific name- the instance name, database name- the value of the host...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Unavailability of ErrorMessage in ZOS Connect

We are creating webservices off of ADABAS using DVM and exposing those using ZOS Connect. My aim is to throw appropriate http error code as the case maybe when an error is encountered. I believe there is no way to do it and we have to interpret th...
6 days ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

DB2 12 Support for SPSS 18.5

My client, diamond account in Turkiye and one of the greatest banks, is using DB2 12 which has EOS date at the end of 2025. However, they are unable to use it with SPSS 18.5 as DB2 12 is not supported. They are unable to create critical reports us...
5 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

enable to fabricate data for tables with circular dependency.

Currently IBM Optim TDF tool doesn't support tables with circular dependency. it doesn't even accept the tables with circular dependency to add into TDF project. We would like IBM to enable TDF to generate data for tables with circular dependency.
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Fabrication 1 Future consideration

Double " delimiter issue with HPU

When unloading from an Imagecopy using HPU, data gets unloaded like this : " 12345"~"SMA "O" DRAIN TILE CO. LTD. 05 while with DSNUTILB, it gets unloaded like this: " 12345"~"SMA ""O"" DRAIN TILE CO. LTD. 05. If you look at 'O' in the company name...
over 1 year ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Future consideration

[Copy] Actifio (VDP) AGM Manager UI does not display appropriate message when Snapshot pool is full

During the Backup restore process, when allocated Snapshot pool is full and an internal error gets generated, UI is not getting this message propagated to the user who is executing the restore task. User is expecting proper logging message or a UI...
about 2 years ago in Optim 0 Future consideration

Find special characters in WKC Catalog search

It has been found that the WKC Catalog search does not properly handle special characters (underscore specifically). The response to the IBM Support Case is that this is a limitation of the "light weight" search feature used, based on Lucene and i...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Add the ‘Db2 Tenant’ feature (enabling database multi-tenancy) delivered in Db2 11.5.5 on other platforms to the Db2 for i product.

This would enable applications to be offered in a SaaS multi-tenant environment with much lower costs than the existing dedicated partition or database options.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration