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In Contributor home page, applications should sort numerically provided you are numbering your applications

I have around 20 applications and I have prefixed them with numbers .e.g 01. ABC, 02. XYZ. Whenever I logon to contributor home page, applications are not lined up serially.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhancements for SSV backup of a DPF database

This is a request from Wells Fargo Bank to enhance the SSV backup of DPF databases. 1. Throttle the execution of a SSV backup by specifying the number of database partitions to concurrently execute a backup on each physical server. 2. Being able t...
over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Defaut DATA BUFFER value in LOAD.

Wells Fargo requested if it possible to come up with a lower default value for DATA BUFFER without specifying DATA BUFFER in the load command. For example a registry variable like LOAD_DEFAULT_DATA_BUFFER=1000 that would take effect whenever the l...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

New privilege for IMPORT into a restrictive database

Granting DATAACCESS authority works but is not a desirable option as the user would get access to all tables. Granting CONTROL or INSERT/SELECT, without DATAACCESS, returns SQL0551N. As a result customers are left on their own to pursue and figure...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Security / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Create a storage group in a specific database partition group.

After discussing with Pavel Sustr & Quentin Presley there is current no plans to for this hence the request. I'm copied the initial e-mail request. Is there any plan to allow storage group definition, in DPF, to apply to a particular dbpart gr...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

candidate host pending reason

It's about pending reason hostname. Current pending reason as below. These 3 hosts are not in host group of this queue, but they are in candidate host list. PENDING REASONS: Candidate host pending reasons (18 of 7574 hosts): Job slot limit reached...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Improve poor query compilation performance due to long lock list traversal in DB2 10.1 and later

Beginning with DB2 LUW 10.1 DGTT-referencing DML started to take catalog locks and therefore we have to free them and potentially traverse long lock chain if the DML is a part of a long-running transaction potentially holding millions of locks. Th...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Process not visible under application folder in Planning Analytics Workspace

In TM1 currently we can keep a process under application folder and give it to users only their respective process for easy access and they dont have to scroll down and find their process in between n number of processes. But currently in Planning...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

value of 'Execution Host' column of the grid_bjobs view

Display the current job host topology in the 'Execution Host' column of the 'Grid -> Job Info -> Details' view: x*host1,y*host2,z*host3:...) instead of MaxSlot@host1 where host1 is the 1st host assigned to the job where the initial command r...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

HAAB056W should be suppressed for LOBs

This warning does not apply to LOBs. It should be removed from the tool. HAAB056W TS DDV99LS1 SLS1AU1 00000 SYSLOBSTATS - Runstats statistics do not exist; Default stat values will be used. HAAB056W TS DDV99LS1 SLS1AU1 00000 SYSTABLEPART - Run...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration