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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

TI Function or Variable to read tm1s.cfg

Would be nice to have a TI function or variable that can reference the location of tm1s.cfg.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 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

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

Allow a backup Notification server in Cognos Configuration

Allow an administrator to set a backup notification mail server. When the mail server is down for any reason, all notifications from the BI server go into 'Waiting' status. You also are unable to use Event Studio to trigger a notification to an ad...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IJPMC0412-1500 IDAA Requirement for space allocation controls

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: dshums@us.ibm.comSubmitters Company: JPMorgan Chase PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: IJPMC0412-1500 IDAA Requirement for space allocation controlsHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Information ManagementCu...
over 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Robust Time Series node with a "split" role

When the TS node encounters a time series with poor quality, the whole Time Series node fails, for all the split models. The TS node should not fail when it meets a bad split, it should ignore it, and return "$null" in forecast field.
about 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler Server 0 Future consideration