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Additional company locales Moldavian ro_MD and Georgian ka_GE

Our customers want new locales of company attributes (Moldavian ro_MD and Georgian ka_GE). One can observe a full locales set at "Data Model Manager -> Security -> Company Attributes" screen. On the top section of company setup there are 2 s...
about 5 years ago in Product Master 1 Future consideration

Logical Backup

Create “loadable” files foe objects rather than table space dumps. Only base table contents, no indexes
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Migration from SMS/Raw to AS

How to move the thousands DBs which use a combination of SMS (syscatspace) and RAW to full automatic storage. Some DBs are 100+TB so unload/load is not an option. Need a date for elimination of SMS/RAW support to determine our priotiy!
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

RP Tables syntax

If the “INDEX IN” option is left off the index goes in the default TSP. There is no way to change this later
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Lower WLM capture Threashhold for elapstime to be under 10s

We use WLM to capture long running SQLs. The lowest threashhold for elapstime is set to 10s. This is too high for OLTP, we cannot afford to capture every SQL. But it would be nice to lower the 10s to 1 or 2s.
about 5 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Setting Seeds

I want to do model testing while always drawing the same training data with the help of a random variable (e.g. command NAIVEBAYES). It is important to always produce the same numbers. In SPSS I can do it with SET but there are pitfalls the user m...
about 5 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Feature request: Enhance/add filters to fuzzy matching

I have a scenario where fuzzy matching should only be executed in regards to spaces and special characters such as (),.- I do not want the fuzzy matching to apply to alphanumeric characters (letters or digits), as I am trying to match to an exact ...
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

SPSS handling of Foreign characters

Data being extracted from a data warehouse contain foreign characters. There are characters are not part of the world writing systems. Any attempt to load these datasets to a Netezza Database always fails
about 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

get user license checkouts from RTM graphs

Right now, we can only see current license checkouts in RTM. can we implement a feature in RTM that gives user license checkouts in a specific period of time, 30min from license usage graphs? I think we already have this enabled for host graphs. I...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Allow REPAIR CATALOG on indexes to reset version numbers

In Db2 Cloning Tool, index version mismatches cause indexes to be rebuilt on the target rather than using the physical copy. Some of these indexes are very large. Corrective measures would be to drop and recreate the index on the source which woul...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration