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Update CDC as to being able to replicate multibyte enabled columns without doing conversion when contained data type is single byte

RE : Case TS003082492 - December 2019 We’re replicating new files which now contains DBCS-Open data type columns. However, the contained data is single byte characters only. CDC/IIDR insist on handling these columns as Unicode and converting data,...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Access AWS Redshift via VPN

Currently WatsonStuidio has to access AWS Redshift via internet (public network). Requirement is to make this communication secured ( by VPN for example)
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 4 Functionality already exists

PN_STAGEBLOB_THRESHOLD - Set to 1Mb when first table containing BYTE or TEXT is partitioned by Round Robin

Currently, the PN_STAGEBLOB_THRESHOLD onconfig parameter is not present in the standard onconfig file, therefore it defaults to zero. It's absence also means that most DBAs will not be aware of its existence and the potential pain they are in for...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Query Nodes - Allow Certain Members of a DB2 Group to Process Queries Against OLTP Data Without Interfering with OLTP

In a DB2 for z/OS data-sharing group, allow customers to designate certain DB2 members as "query-only" subsystems. A "query-only" subsystem, or "query node" would process queries for analytics and business intelligence against the same databases a...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Invoke the DB2 call-out scripts (COS) for ALL First Occurrence Data Collection (FODC) events

Currently the DB2 call-out scripts (COS) will not be invoked for all ALL First Occurrence Data Collection (FODC) events. For instance the only time that FODC_AppErr% events will invoke the db2cos script is when the condition happens on a sub-agent...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Add support for Kerberos authentication for IIDR for SQL Server

Sql server for AlwaysOn configurations require a stand alone Distributor sql server instance. Because of this IIDR needs to double hop connections to this sql instance and in our environment Kerberos authentication is required. Since Kerberos auth...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Calculate deserved slots only based on active i.e. non-idle consumers in e.g. Symphony HostFactory symA requestor

This comes from discussion in TS009907566 "Hostfactory scale up while cluster had free slots". "egosh consumer view" provides, in addition to other outputs, "Planned Quota" and "Share Quota", for a particular resource group (RG): "Planned Quota" i...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Not under consideration

Access to Monitor Current and Past Activities without Admin Role

We are looking for a way to allow developers in our Non-Prod Cognos environments to have access to the Status tab of the Administration tool so that they can monitor their reports/jobs. We need a way to grant a capability to a Non-Admin role that ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Zero Downtime during Online CRM Application Migration

Problem Statement : Transaction 1 (T1) is intended to delete and subsequently insert few records to a table TB1. The business logic is like, this T1 should be open and not to commit as well until the end of delete followed by insert operation. ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Avoid Db2 failure even if it got BSDS access initialization failure (BSDS timestamp mismatch)

[Background]- Customer's GRSRNL specifies SYSVSAM in systems exclusion list because they need to share CATALOGs. [Description]Our customer got BSDS Access initialization failure and starting Db2 was failed. Please refer to PMR#55237,615,760.They c...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists