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Specific Encoding options on the list of Encoding Setting on Stream Properties and Var.File properties

Currently on the var.file properties there is setting for "Encoding" which allow user select following options:- Stream default- System default- UTF-8And on the stream properties, there is "Encoding" setting with option of "System default" and "UT...
about 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

IFCID 62 change to add creator/owner and timestamp

Add more complete object identification by including Creator/Owner in IFICID 62 DDL notitification API.
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Infosphere Optim - Data Masking - GDPR - New LUA function

The need is about the data masking and the GDPR constraints. Our développers used the LUA capabilities of z/OS Optim. The needs are convert in a bijective way a numeric chain in a other numeric chain if we run repeatedly a convert with the same ch...
about 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 3 Not under consideration

Enhance the message "table XXXX not found" during running load Utility.

We actually want DB2 load utilities to display consistent error messages that are easy to find. It should definitely be an ‘E’rror, not a ‘W’arning or ‘I’nformational message’, but it should also contains something like ‘UNSCCESSFUL’, or ‘ERROR’, ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

z/OS Infosphere Optim - Data Migration : add a DELETE DLI function

Our SI is mixed DLI and DB2. Therefore, our OPTIM ADS use DLI database and DB2 tables. Before we refresh data, we delete DLI et DB2 data in cohérence. The deletes are only partial [DLI Bases and DB2 tables are not emptied] Optim offer a standard D...
about 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 2 Future consideration

Manually confirm whether to switch before TSAMP+HADR automatically switches

In the TSAMP+hadr environment, in the event of a failure, TSAMP will directly switch the active/standby relationship. Sometimes, it may solve the A machine failure recovery time, especially the AB machine transmits a large transaction log. Therefo...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Alter Database CCSID to UNICODE

The CCSID of a database is only allowed to be ALTERed within the encoding scheme (in this case EBCDIC) and only to/from the euro-equivalent CCSID of the original EBCDIC CCSID. This is a legacy restriction at the design level. After converting all ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support Process Reeping Plugin

Support a daemon, that when enabled, will remove interactive logins from the host for users who do not have workload on those systems. This can presently be done through an ELIM, but it would be nice if it were in the core of our process monitorin...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement for DB2 z/OS database backup/recovery

BUSINESS REQUIREMENT Database Recovery is probably the most critical area for DBAs and Application Support teams. As important as new features and performance are, Recovery is absolutely crucial – Production data loss is unacceptable, long databas...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

No database name in "Warning: update statistics low using sampling may generate inaccurate index statistics for index"

There is not enough information in the following message that can be found in online.log: 07/19/18 02:25:27 Warning: update statistics low using sampling may generate inaccurate index statistics for index informix.ix_transacaoguia_goperadora due t...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration