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[Cluster Management] EGO - Harvesting - Configure VSH CPU and memory thresholds at per ESXi host level

Our environments has huge amount of VMware vClusters. Each vCluster contains dozens ESXi hosts. We plan to create 2 to 4 VMs on each ESXi hosts under VSH control. If the VSH threshold configuration only can be changed cross all hosts in a vCluster...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

R2PRO00006892 - include a matching timestamp for a given activity record in all the tables

Farmers currently retains 4+1 rolling months of WLM activity data involving the following WLM tables, and we would like to add a 'date' column having a default valude current timestamp in these 3 tables: - ACTIVITY_DB2ACTIVITIES_V97 - ACTIVITYMETR...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

WLM monitor and control total private sortheap usage

Concurrent private sortheap heavy queries run out of system memory and cause systems reboot. ISAS 7700 environment with DB2 v10.1 FP4 on AIX. There are 16 physical nodes running 122 database partitions. The catalog node and coordinator are on one ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

Improve performance of L1/L2 backups

Current, for L1 (or L2) backups we need to read all pages. This is highly inefficient and there are alternatives for implementing this.In the PMR we've been told this matches old FEA idsdb00010525. In this the proposed solution was to maintain a t...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Support XA transactions on column-organized tables

We have a main DW database on DB2 for z/OS and a Datamart on DB2 for LUW. Some tables on both z/OS and LUW are populated using Cobol programs which are submitted from the mainframe. We want to convert the Datamart on DB2 LUW to BLU, but the Cobol ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

predicates blocked when temp table involved in federated joins

Unacceptable slowness and/or timeout for affected SQL due to predicate blocking resulting in fetching all data from backend
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0

Add ability for 4GL to handle lvarchar columns

Add ability to handle lvarchar columns in 4gl. Currently a program will compile but dumps core when it executes.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Functionality already exists

Restore from an inline load copy in replace mode

Restore from an inline load copy in replace mode. Currently, we are obliged to restore from the backup first and after to rollforward so that the load backup were used. It makes sense for a load in insert mode, but for a load in replace mode, it i...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Enable DB2 instances on AUFS (Docker)

DB2 can be installed on AUFS, but database instances cannot be created (see https://github.com/jeffbonhag/db2-docker/issues/2#issuecomment-52920986). DB2 express (and every other edition) uses O_DIRECT to access the file system, which is not avail...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

DB2AA Customer Consumable Interface for Memory Monitoring

In DB2AA V4 all of the paired subsystems to a single Accelerator are sharing a common apply agent memory structure of 8 GB. This is a fixed size. As customers add more subsystems to this single accelerator with replication (CDC) enabled, there is ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration