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Product should have a more "visible" message when memory limits are being approached, instead of a cryptic message hidden in the sysout.

Currently when the a Datareplication started task starts having memory issues (messagepoolsize), the only indication of this is an error code (RC(08), SpcRC(006A004E)) related to memory allocation that comes out in the sysout/sysprnt of the job th...
about 1 month ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow persistent subscriptions to reconnect when there has been a recoverable database connection error

We have been receiving SQL connection error messages on our DB2 LUW source instances that include the text: "SQLSTATE 08506: A connection failed but has been re-established.". Support has indicated that this is functioning as designed and persiste...
6 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Rolling update when using hadr clusters in db2u container environment

When using a hadr cluster with a db2u operator in a container environment it would be nice when changes on the containers (like db cfg parameter updates) are done in a rolling fashion so that the downtime is minimized. For example when changing th...
6 months ago in Db2 0 Under review

Customized Refresh Interval for "Databases" page like DMS did.

Hello. DMC doens't provide a Customized Refresh Interval for "Databases" page like DSM did. According to Case TS010513163, the refresh interval is 5 minutes and can't be changed. Neither the Rest APIs can change that behavior. I would request a bu...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review

Using the VS Code wca.core.chat.focus Open chat command, put keyboard focus in the chat window

VS Code offers commands as a keyboard-driven approach. I can hit cmd+shift+p, type wca chat, hit enter, and the WCA window is right there ...... except to get keyboard focus in the chat box i have to hit shift+tab twice! Put keyboard focus in the ...

write the initial prompt as a comment in the playbook when using the playbook generation feature

When someone uses the WCA4A's playbook generation feature (generating a full playbook thanks to a single prompt), it would be useful (some customers hasve asked for this) if the initial prompt used to build the playbook could be written as a comme...

Allow FOR SYSTEM TIME ALL

If you have system-period temporal table you can query the table (and it's history table) with a period-specification: FOR SYSTEM TIME AS OF timestamp FOR SYSTEM TIME BETWEEN timestamp AND timestamp FOR SYSTEM TIME FROM timestamp TO timestamp ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Statements Event Monitor should include UOW (transaction commit) to give similar capability as a db2 z/os trace

When trying to diagnose an online transaction problem, I could not find a way of tracing the transaction with an Event Monitor to include the implicit commits of the XA Transaction (XA-PREPARE, XA-END). I raised ticket a ticket with IBM (mentioned...
3 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

Decouple the VaR sample application from WEBGUI based to CLI based especially need to generate credential for both kerberos client enabled and disabled clusters.

We are looking for a way to generate the user credential for parent-child application via SYMREST API interface. Right now the sample VaR application can only work from WEBGUI and there is no CLI tool to generate the user credential in session cre...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Under review

Db2 could support the UPDATE option for Db2 z/OSMF workflows

whenever an RSUyymm maintenance makes significant changes to a install job and/or workflow member it gets regenerated via the UPDATE option which should result in a quicker turn around less prone to error Note: found a similar request made in 2022...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review