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Provide an Operation Level Timestamp for Each Operation

Current DB2 for Z and DB2 LUW shared only the commit timestamp. Only DB2 Z also has the TS of the actual DDL time To emulate like they did for oracle to have a switch to send the DDL time instead of the UOW TS This is for the client -->FEDEX , ...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Index and index partition's DSSIZE

Information about indexes and index partitions should show DSSIZE. Today, the only way to see index DSSIZE and index partition's individually set DSSIZE is to type DDL as a line command before the index name, or type B on the command line when the...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

Free Text Search to find multiple attributes using semi colon

Currently in PIM, using Free Text Search functionality, you can search for multiple attributes using 'OR'. This would be a bit hard for our business users and we would like to suggest to have semi colon ';' between the attributes instead of 'OR'. ...
about 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Delivered

Would like a way to stop/suspend/resume a task inside a Session Scheduler job

This would be pretty useful for debugging a broken task or one that needs to be suspended for a time.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

Provide a bjobs equivalent for all active sessions in a Session Scheduler job

We need to have a way to see which tasks are running and how long they have been running to find potentially 'stuck' processes.
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

Discovery Error - extracting data - (STRUCT type) is unsupported

Asper IBM SF ticket update we verified table definition and found it has a column of type SDO_GEOMETRY so as this is not supported in current version we are creating this enhancement request to support in next release.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Disable equal spread without disabling all adjustment types.

While running a processes were found to take significantly longer than prior executions. After researching the issue, it was found that users had performed an “Equal Spread” of data at a very high consolidation within the cube, which drastically i...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

NEW SCALAR function for DB2 SQL – HEX2BIGINT

NEW SCALAR function for DB2 SQL – HEX2BIGINT I would like to see IBM provide a specific function for converting a HEX to BIGINT. I think this would be useful for many/most/all users of Db2! Why? The IBM LOAD utility will report that when input dat...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Admin tool MASK for KEY LABEL

Admin Tool Masking feature can benefit from a process where in the KEY LABEL can be removed from a table definition. It is quite likely that test versions of production tables will not have a requirement for encryption at rest. SO when creating DD...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Prevent underscores in column names from causing line breaks in headings

We have column names that consists of underscores as part of the name. After submitting a query using QMF, the reported output generates column headings that treat those underscores as line breaks. Provide an option to preserve the names on one li...
about 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered