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REORG with a new keyword should transfer the page set work to DFDSS

Why is the above idea useful? Sometimes you need to move page sets around due to altering the HLQ, due to removing extents etc. These actions do not require an unload and reload of the data, because it is external stuff out of DB2 scope. For small...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Display IAG2 on object level

Sometimes IAG2 will be disabled, in some situations this is clear and ok, in some situations it is strange and not expected. To implement reliable automation we need e.g. an enhancement to DISPLAY DATABASE SPACENAM with IAG, which shows which inse...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Calculations -- FOR Loops

Calculations often require a long list of 'if/elif/else' statements (sometimes over 100 of them) to account for a lot of management of lists and larger inputs. Adding a For loop would significantly reduce the complexity and maintenance of large ca...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 4 Future consideration

REORG PREFORMAT of 1 TB page set should be interruptable

With PH64760 one can create 1TB page sets in one step. If one runs a REORG PREFORMAT on such large objects, the Media Manager Preformat task is not interruptable. Such a size of 1TB needs ~1.5hours to preformat the page set. In the meanwhile neith...
11 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

REST API endpoint for performance optimized writeback with arrow format

With more and more TM1 implementations happening in the cloud, we see more data loads using REST API / TM1py instead of Turbo Integrator. When using TM1py or the REST API, the best performance you can accomplish right now is to be on par with Turb...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Request to increase the maximum number of test data entries that can be uploaded to the Evaluation Studio feature

[Request]Because we would like to evaluate with around 4,000 data entries in this project, we kindly request that the upper limit be modified to allow at least 10,000 entries to be processed. I would greatly appreciate it if you could let me know ...
4 months ago in watsonx.governance 9

CDC statistics tables or files needed for continuous monitoring

Currently CDC does not write continuous statistic out to a table or file or other. It is only possible to issue a query to get this information in a report format. But a report is not a solution for continues monitoring or getting an historical vi...
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

DB2 Catalog and INDEX COMPRESSION statistics (PAGESAVE and BP_UNUSED)

If an index is compressed, it is documented in DB2 catalog table SYSIBM.SYSINDEXES column called ‘COMPRESS’ Tablespace compression is documented in SYSTABLESPACE and SYSTABLEPART. In both tables with column called ‘COMPRESS’ SYSTABLEPART also co...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 9 Future consideration

In the list of catalog assets, I would like to choose which attributes are shown as headers and their order

I would like to sort the list based on a custom attribute, but now that attribute is not available as header. Basically I'd like to let users find out easily the maximum value for that field. There are also a couple other custom attributes defined...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Render Variable to show/hide columns not working in CSV and Excel Data formats

We have a prompt page (Check Box prompt ) to select/unselect columns to show/hide in the list report. We are using Boolean variable accordingly to show/hide the columns based on the prompt[t selection. We have around 80 columns in the choices of t...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted