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118 VOTE

Resolve a restriction that CACHE DYN STABILITY function can not use with CONCENTRATE WITH LITERALS option.

Customer environment Db2 V12 <- DRDA -> Db2connect/JDBC(IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ type 2) Server side.(JDBC Type2 is used) Windows server: - WebSphere BASE 9.0.0 (Windows2016) - Db2client / IBM Data Server Runtime Client V11.1...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Allow alter column to drop NOT NULL constraint

Currently the only way to remove the NOT NULL constraint from a column is to unload the table, drop-recreate table (or drop-add column) and reload table. Such a small change needs so much effort, and causes unnecessary outage and service disruptio...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Breakdown of Estimated performance gain percent value for each Recommended Indexes (Used in Plan = "Y") in WhatIf Analysis

As per attached screenshot, there are 4 recommended indexes together provide 42.62% of Estimated Performance again if they are created. Its not possible to pick any one or two indexes instead of all the four indexes. If 1 of the 4 recommended inde...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Configure PaceMaker for Db2/HADR automation using "rsync" as an option for "db2crm" script.

Ability to configure the entire PaceMaker cluster for Db2 HADR without using ftp or scp. For security reasons, some client environments do not allow the use of "ftp" or "scp". The cluster creation option accepts "rsync" as an option instead of "sc...
5 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

More Authentication Support for Content Store with Azure SQL DB

Hi, As more company are moving to cloud, we need more modern method of authentication for content store. Currently for MSSQL, SQL or Windows authentication is supported. In the Azure Entra ID, we need support for authentication with the Managed Id...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Submitted

Allow join of base temporal table to archive enabled tables

Temporal and archive enabled tables both provide valuable features depending on the use case for the data. We've implemented both types of tables in our Production environment and had initially implemented temporal tables for one of our most criti...
10 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

HA functionality for Datastage Cartridge

Background •In general, the best practice to ensure high availability for OpenShift cluster is to spread the masters and workers across three AZ’s in a cloud. But for DataStage, it only makes sense if the platform allows multiple conductors spread...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Jump to Sub-Action and close current Action / Follow on Actions for End of Conversation

The current End of a Conversation flow is robotic and does not give the end user a satisfactory experience at the end of their journey. The flow needs to be customizable so that it is consistent, and can gather feedback, start another journey, or ...
10 days ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

Possibility to list / filter / Sort Variables by variable type

In the list of variables, you can sort and search by many attributes, but not by type. Our team would like this added as it would accelerate browsing through our hundreds of variables.
11 days ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

Nested Folder Structures

Our Team of Content Authors, typically organise their work / responsibilities in folders. Having a nested / hierarchical folder, would all creators to also group their own work into logical blocs.
11 days ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted