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Availability of DROP SYSTEM PERIOD for System temporal tables.

When a table is defined as a system temporal and the changes need to be reverted for any specific reason - A drop of system period would be needed. This functionality is available in Db2 LUW. Without this, the table has to be dropped and recreated.
22 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

MCI status request to handle FLI buffer over flow.

If FLI buffer is full , MCI status request should reply as MCI is down.
22 days ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Affinity scheduling must take L3 cache hierarchy into account

Newer CPUs have multiple L3 caches, with dedicated cores per L3 cache. Running multi-threaded jobs on all cores within a shared L3 cache can reduce runtime in our cases up 70%, compared to running over multiple L3 caches. Think of the AMD EPYC 935...
22 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Planned for future release

Remove the limit on the number of secondary IDs

The documentation states: If RACF is active and the “list of groups” option is active, the routine sets the list of Db2 secondary IDs to the list of group names to which the RACF user ID is connected. The maximum number of groups is 1012. Since RA...
23 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Default view in Workspace

Currently there is no option to create a view in Workbenck without data as it is available in Architect. If you try to create a new in Workbench it consumes a lot memory. here is link to the ticket https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500Ke000002f...
23 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Drive Explorer needs to be able to unzip 7zip files

Our backups for Planning Analytics are created using 7zip, however we are currently unable to unzip these from within Drive Explorer. So with the decommissioning of Remote Access to the server, we would have to download these files, unzip them, th...
23 days ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Capture FODC when the db2 watchdog not able to start the daemons that died

At present when the db2passwd daemon gets terminated db2 watchdog is supposed to re-instantiate the process. But when its not able to start it for some reason we expect watchdog or the engine by itself should create an FODC and collect all the nec...
3 months ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Submitted

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

Total, Average and cound of selected cells in PAW and PASS UI (as known from Excel)

Excel is using a very simple but effective method to show the total , count and avererage of selected cells or cell ranges in its status bar. Adding this functionality across all available PA web based UIs (PAW, Cube Viewer, PASS) will significant...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Save to File option error

We are currently working on migrating OpenPages+Cognos from traditional VM to CP4D and see that one of the feature is having issues and details given below: When we execute a report and trying the save the report output to a file system (Save to F...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration