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DSNT376I messages reintroduced

With introduction of APARs PH08708 and PH08431, messages DSNT376I are suppressed. These are the sentences: PH08708 -> When Timeout Exit is called, IRLM may flag that no DSNT376I message should be issued. In this situation IFCID 196 records will...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Salesforce connectivity - Datastage 11.5 API 47

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almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Support for multi-byte string in the "View data" fnction

"View data" in Oracle Connector failed with error "ORA-01406: fetched column value was truncated" when multi-byte string is included in the column referred, although the job execution succeeded.This restriction reduces usability of the product, as...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

CHANGE DATA CAPTURE FOR DB2 z/OS - ONUTILITYACTION parameter

the idea would be to be able to set different values for this parameter ONUTILITYACTION at the subscription level. Today this parameter is set at the CDC agent level. This doesn't allow customers to have different behaviors regarding DB2 z/OS util...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

SSIDEXCLUDELIST - Generic namesc

It would be very helpful to have the possibility to code some generic names in the Classic Change Data Capture for IMS z/OS in the parameter field SSIDEXCLUDELIST. In some cases, customers need to code several hundred or thousands of names which o...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhancements for SSV backup of a DPF database

This is a request from Wells Fargo Bank to enhance the SSV backup of DPF databases. 1. Throttle the execution of a SSV backup by specifying the number of database partitions to concurrently execute a backup on each physical server. 2. Being able t...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Defaut DATA BUFFER value in LOAD.

Wells Fargo requested if it possible to come up with a lower default value for DATA BUFFER without specifying DATA BUFFER in the load command. For example a registry variable like LOAD_DEFAULT_DATA_BUFFER=1000 that would take effect whenever the l...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

New privilege for IMPORT into a restrictive database

Granting DATAACCESS authority works but is not a desirable option as the user would get access to all tables. Granting CONTROL or INSERT/SELECT, without DATAACCESS, returns SQL0551N. As a result customers are left on their own to pursue and figure...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Security / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Create a storage group in a specific database partition group.

After discussing with Pavel Sustr & Quentin Presley there is current no plans to for this hence the request. I'm copied the initial e-mail request. Is there any plan to allow storage group definition, in DPF, to apply to a particular dbpart gr...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Improve poor query compilation performance due to long lock list traversal in DB2 10.1 and later

Beginning with DB2 LUW 10.1 DGTT-referencing DML started to take catalog locks and therefore we have to free them and potentially traverse long lock chain if the DML is a part of a long-running transaction potentially holding millions of locks. Th...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration