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Show status "active/pending" in Management Console and not just '"active" when DMFS510P metadata table "UPDSTS=2" in CDC DB2 for i

if the status of a table in the back end system (CDC Db2 for i) is 'active/pending' ( metadata table DMFS510P PF when "UPDSTS=2" - "active/pending") for any reason, that this status is visible in the CDC Management Console.
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Manta to natively support scanning of ADF (Azure Data Factory) jobs to provide Technical data lineage.

At this point Manta doesn't have native scanner for ADF, but instead requires source-target mapping using Open Manta Designer. Few our customers (WSIB, Bombardier) are looking for native scanner support in Manta
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 9 Submitted

IDAA - Db2 Accelerator for z/OS - MFA implementation similar to HMA (HMC)

Regulatory requirements are requiring our organization to work with all vendors and try and have all products and tooling that requires logon and password to be MFA compliant. Recently we implemented IDAA on Linux One and our IDAA and Hardware tea...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Under review

File Manager/Drive Explorer Security

With the removal of the Rich Tier Desktop services, we are faced with securing specific databases and folders within our environment. Currently, the File Manager does not provide visibility to all folders within a database, only the Data/model_upl...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Tenant level recoverability : The ability to take backups and restore at the tenant level

If Namespace Separation is going to be used for lots of test/dev databases, people would need to be able to do backup/restore of their own tenants.
3 months ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Integration of Commvault Metallic.io with IBM OpenShift for Online Backup Support

Many of our customers have already adopted Commvault Metallic.io as their preferred backup solution. Also, to simplify IT operation managing separate backup solutions for Cloud Pak for Data environments adds complexity and costs (OADP) Enabling in...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

Db2/Z SQL timeout on behalf of application

Purpose : Submit DB2Z ‘AHA’ request for Angela Yang – Scotiabank Canada Ltd. Background: Customer Situation is that an application (cobol) invokes a IMS Fast Path transaction, which subsequently invokes a DB2Z/OS SQL request. This DB2Z SQL request...
9 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Temporal support for RLF tables

If you are trying to understand why a thread was aborted by RLF or not, it would be helpful to know what the contents of the RLF tables were at a certain point in time.
9 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow the currentPackageSet property for insert buffering to be set in platform connections for DB2WH & DB2 to leverage performance improvements.

During Performance Load Testing with Db2Wh Gen3 LMCO noticed major performance improvements when enabling Db2 server side Insert Buffering :https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-enable-db2-server-side-insert-buffering-jdbc-type-4-applications But ...
9 days ago in Connectivity 1 Submitted

Add the capability to add artifacts directly from the category screen

Our users work a lot based on categories ("data assets"). So they add terms/rules under a certain category. That is their "home base". Now in order for them to add a term, they need to move to "Business terms" and add one - choosing as primary cat...
17 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration