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Purger takes 7 hours to clean task_attributes table

It takes as long as 8 hours to clean task_attributes table with 14 days data, around 22M records. Please either add primary key or drop/truncate partition instead of deleting rows which is an expensive operation.
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

Support of ICF-catalogs on target vols when source of subsystem cloning is SLB RFE 83425

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=83425 To use SLBs for backup/recovery it's neccessary to place the ICF-catalogs on the same volumes as DB2-data. But so far cloning-tool doesn't support handling of ICF-cata...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

DB2_GENERATED_ROWID not treated correctly RFE 45902

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=45902 in tables with LOBs DB2 generates an additional column DB2_GENERATED_ROWID which is placed at the end of the table. If you add some columns by ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN t...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Always generate ALTER TABLE SQL for Identity Columns RFE 71287

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=71287 Could you please add a new parameter to Cloning Tool where it will always generate the ALTER TABLE Restart even if restart-valuie is not set in catalog. If a table wit...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

Heartbeat messages are not available in EP if using delimited format

1. As far as including schema changes in EP messages – at this time they don't have a pressing need so I would say you don't have to worry about that. However, they do want/need to see heartbeat messages. The manual says heartbeat messages are n...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Delivered

Unable to pull intercompany details via Excel Link

Currently Excel Link is unable to pull Intercompany transaction details (transaction amount, transaction currency) from Controller database. Customer wants to use excel link reports to do so instead of running standard reports.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Delivered

pureScale to support Mellanox ConectX-4 IB & RoCE adapters

pureScale can only support Mellanox ConnectX-3 and lower version. More and more customer are using ConnectX-4 and higher version of IB and RoCE adapters, for higher throughput and lower latency, which greatly improves pureScale performance.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 2 Delivered

Enhance Advanced Reservation

We need an enhanced Advanced Reservation, we can call it "soft" AR. The "soft" AR does not allow new jobs from other users to use the reserved host when the AR is active, but it allows the existing jobs from other uses keep running until complete.
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Integrate user authentication among IDS/JSON/REST

Presently, the only way to authenticate users to the REST listener is by setting up mapped users and using PAM, which limits things to the Mongo 2.6 API and earlier. It also prevents having seamless user access for hybrid applications that sometim...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

RTM remote database supporting mysql request

RTM 10.2 seems only support mariadb for remote. But right now nvidia only has mysql db 5.x and even for future we will continue using mysql db for RTM. So we will have problem to upgrade RTM from 10.1 to 10.2 due to RTM remote database support. We...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered