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Remove/Hide the Suspend option in job work flow in PAC.

We have situations where people "Suspend" jobs for days and these are jobs that would have taken only hours to complete. During the duration at which the jobs are suspended, there are other jobs in pending because they do not have nodes available ...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Next generation UI

Next generation UI of MDMv11.6 only supports locale in English. But we want to use it in Japanese and Chinese with the same company code. It enables us to manage multilingual master data.
over 7 years ago in Product Master 1 Delivered

Support of implicit tables for tablespace cloning

Currently, Cloning Tool does not support automatic database name translation for implicit objects. It successfully matched source TS DSN00001.TBAPCRAT to target TS DSN00170.TBAPCRAT, but there was no DATABASE translate rule that would allow source...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

[Integration Requirement] Possibility to select different memory allocation libraries

Summary: Provide the possibility to select different memory allocation libraries (implementing certain allocation/de-allocation algorithms) via application profile entry for the SSM. Proposed candidates: jemalloc and tcmalloc. They become necessar...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Delivered

Datastage on Hadoop: RFE: localize .odbc.ini automatically

What we want to see is that the ODBC connector stage can localize .odbc.ini through YARN, just in the way like Kerberos credential cache or keytab in file connector. So after each update of the .odbc.ini file on edge node, no manual intervention i...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

DB2 z/OS data type TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE for Information Server DB2 Connector not supported

The specific DB2 z/OS data type "TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE" is not supported by Information Server/Datastage DB2 Connector.If one encounters this type, an unspecific error comes up. At least, the error should be more expressive and detailed. After a...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

IDAA - Portability of queries performed on the db2 for the IDAA

We observe that when trying to use Functions, Date Formats, calculations, data formats (binary) in SQL that are submitted at the db2, when having these characteristics, the querys are not directed to the IDAA. We need, in particular, the possibili...
about 11 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

change Data type of column TIMESTAMP to TIMESTAMP from CHAR(26) in performance database tables DB2PMSYSPAR_*

Please refer to case TS004316369. All other performance database tables' timestamp related columns have been converted to data type TIMESTAMP, only DB2PMSYSPAR_* are left behind. Two reason we'd like it to change: Standardize all time related colu...
over 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add ACE info to the OMPE PDB tables and CSV files for individual tran (FILE)

When you use OMPE batch reporting you can do filtering on ACE . However the ACE info is not stored in the FILE output, so it cannot be loaded into the PDB tables and CSV files. As an ACE can only run one tran at a time, having the ACE can help to ...
over 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add support for Cascading FlashCopy for COPY command with FASTREP(REQ) - see PTF UI172348

Context: We take daily System Level backups (SLB) of our SAP production environments using the BACKUP SYSTEM utility. We use Incremental FlashCopy to reduce the amount of data that needs to be physically copied to the FlashCopy target volumes and ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 4 Delivered