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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

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

Save partition variable in Neural Networks procedures

Problem: In some procedures (like Nearest Neighbor analysis) if cases are randomly assigned to the training and holdout samples on the Partitions tab, they can be saved as a new variable with the values of the partition (training or holdout) to wh...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

lsdmin trigger a parallel restart when host is removed from lsf.c<cluster>file

lsadmin reconfig after a host is removed from lsf. triggers a mbatchd reconfig which is causing a disruption in job submission as this is a not a parallel restart . This request is to change this behavior to a parallel restart rather than normal r...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

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