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Secure BQ CDC service-account-key

Is there a way to configure a secure way to retrieve the service-account-key.json file from key vault? This is the requirement for our production environment setup. Enter BigQuery private key json file [/data/install/IIDR/GCP_BIGQUERY/gcp_connecti...
18 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

UTILITY wait for other Utility

Consider a Utility A executing on an Db2-object (example LOAD) and another incompatible Utility B trying to acquire drain on the same Db2-object (example QUIESCE). Db2 immediately rejects this Utility B, without waiting. We suggest a new Utility o...
7 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Obsolete Package Cleanup

Be able to feed the existing obsolete package cleanup process with a user generated list of packages for cleanup.
about 1 month ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Needs more information

Drive Explorer - Needs the ability to select more than 1 file at once ie Shift Click

Currently the Drive Explorer only allows you to tick one file at a time. So if you have to move/copy/delete more than a couple of files it is very tedious and time consuming. RTP you could open File Explorer and Shift Click to select multiple file...
29 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted
200 VOTE

Reduce Time Required for Online(Inplace) Reorg for huge tables

1) Inplace reorg will take time more for the tables with huge data say for example 1 TB 2) To Reduce the time for this we want to avoid full table scan hence we need to look in portions of the data in a table where it is getting fragmented 3) Henc...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 21 Not under consideration
110 VOTE

NONBLOCKED option for event monitors to prevent them from blocking user services

Db2 locking event monitor may block deadlocked applications from proceeding for a purpose of making event monitors work under some circumstances. (Reported on case TS007885986) Since it could damage user's business services severely, user should b...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 1 Future consideration

Mapping between objects in physical data model (PDM) and its respective objects in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) during Metadata Importing process

Most of the customers use to use data modeling tools (ERwin, PowerDesigner, E/R Studio ...) to design graphically their database structures and then, automatically, generate DDL to build their physical schemas into different RDBMS such as DB2, Ora...
10 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Planned for future release

In PAW there should be the ability to combine data from multiple cubes (from different instances) into one report by sharing the same metadata.

Excel allows for the combining of cube data from different instances into one report but this is not available in Planning and Analytics Workspace. Dashboards and analysis often require data from different cubes (and other data sources) which shar...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Introduce Named Variables on Informix .NET Core

Named variables is a feature that is widely used by developers (specially those who use .NET Technologies) where they nominate a parameter, set him some value and them execute a SQL Statement passing the named variable as a filter.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Synchronized Fields option when using shared field group in different objects

When you use a field group in multiple objects it would be great to have the option at the field level to check synchronized field. This would allow the data in the field of one object to be synchronized the the same field in a different object wh...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review