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automatically applied DB2 fixpack at deployment time

that there is currently not a way to automatically have a DB2 fixpack applied at deployment time (other than to write a script package to start a DB2 fixpack install and have that script package executed at deploy time).
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Allow more then 8bytes for DATABASE NAME.(RIMS)

Database names are currently limited to 8 characters (bytes) in size. This is painful when dealing with hundreds/thousands of databases.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Parallel index creation for partitions of a partitioned-table(RIMS)

[JPMC EDW] Currently, a create-index statement with the PARTITIONED clause will process each partition sequentially. Ideally DB2 would perform this with some degree of parallelism. Currently, this can be accomplished by detaching the individual pa...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Victimization of unused compression dictionaries from DBHEAP(RIMS)

Compression and Expansion dictionaries for each object (table, index) remain in memory until database deactivation time. This is problematic because enough DBHEAP must be allocated to host a compression/expansion dictionary for EACH object that is...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Oracle-style isolation level 3 (multi-version read consistency) locking.(RIMS)

A description of Oracle's 'multi-version read consistency' can be found here: http://www.ss64.com/orasyntax/10locking.html. Even DB2's most liberal CS isolation is more strict then this. [update 04-27-2009]: Support for isolation level 3 queries t...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 1 Not under consideration

Support retrieval of data from IMS Secondary Index using DVM IMS Direct

We have in-house applications that stores data in an IMS Secondary Index database. The application would like to use DVM to retrieve data from their IMS INDEX DB. Currently in DVM V1.1.0 using IMS-Direct on an IMS Index is not supported. Applicati...
about 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Non-Dismissible Banner on top of every CA Screen

A common customer requirement is to display a non-dismissible bar or banner at the top of every screen in the Cognos UI (not just report pages) which contains various corporate information, classification information, or other text and/or images (...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

ADM7007E - Logging The Process holding the database port when this error is logged in the diag could help us better for RCA

Part of critical Protection mode Restart, TSAMP has issued ipclean where the instance restart was not clean due to the below message in the logs. MESSAGE : ADM7007E The SVCENAME DBM configuration parameter, "50000", is configured with a port or a ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Allow DB2 system agents be offloaded to zIIP regardless of iiphonorpriority settings

In DB2 11, if the subsystem come up and detects that IIPHONORPRIORITY=NO, then the system agents will no longer be dispatched to zIIP. We would like that system agents will be offloaded to zIIP regardless of iiphonorpriority settings.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

LSF: bhosts (-w,-l) status when host is closed_Adm and unavail or unreach

bhosts -l HOST ...STATUS CPUF JL/U MAX NJOBS RUN SSUSP USUSP RSV DISPATCH_WINDOWunavail 1.00 - 3 0 0 0 0 0 - LOAD THRESHOLD USED FOR SCHEDULING: .... ADMIN ACTION COMMENT: "HDD or RAID ctlr issue"badmin hhist Mon Dec 29 08:17:06: Host closed by ad...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

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