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Distribution key support for accelerator-only (AOTs) tables missing

Db2 PTF UI72862 introduced a new DDL feature to support distribution keys for AOTs. This doesn't work in the current Administration Tools Version. The DDL comments containing the distribution key definition for the AOT should to be passed to the a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Use etc/UTC as the default timezone

Currently CDC uses Atlantic/Reykjavik as the default time zone - because "it is equivalent to UTC all year round." Better would be to use etc/UTC because it is UTC. https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/etcetera At some time the Icelandic folks mi...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Audit policy with userid after a DB2 recycle.

Audit trace starting as per audit policy after a DB2 recycle does not contain USERIDs as per original trace. This is causing change captured SMF records due to a DB2 restart. Is it possible to update the audit policy system to capture trace qualif...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Import Catalog metadata from a CSV file from the Desktop

When I try to upload a CSV file from the desktop that just contains column names and no data, the catalog cannot display the column names because it seems to think the file empty. The workaround is to add a few rows of "data" to the file to make i...
almost 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Create Accounting Data Lite record type

The standard DB2 Accounting record has become increasingly bloated over the years. All of the information contained in each record is useful, but much of it is not necessary for basic Accounting purposes. Because the record is so big, and so expen...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Selective Suppression of DB2 maintained System History

There are times when it is not desirable to create a new DB2 maintained system history row if the values in the columns of the base table have actually not changed. DB2 already suppresses the actual update of a non-temproal table if none of the co...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Treat "ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ROWID ... RESTART WITH ..." not as a schema change and do not require load of IDAA

"ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ROWID ... RESTART WITH ..." is treated as a Schema Change and requires that the table be reloaded. This Alter is not a Schema Change, please don't require a reload after it is executed.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Bulk upload for training data

We have a JSON file containing all the needed natural language queries and examples for training WDS collection. It would be helpful if there is a way to upload these bulk of queries at the same time to WDS.
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Knowledge center should load content of previous and next articles automatically

When navigating the Knowledge Center, it is necessary to click on the left panel every single article. Some of them are very short to read, and it takes a lot of time to reload the whole page just for a single article. It would be easy if by click...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

GPU Usage for charge back

Chargeback report in LSF explorer reports usage based on slots that are tied to CPU cores. Deep learning experiments use CPUs and GPUs, we need chargeback to include GPU usage so that the target users/departments can be charged appropriately.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

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