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Enhance the SQLCODE screen to show total SQLCODE counts as well as the existing counts for SQLCODEs with details

The SQLCODEs screen is useful for tracking down SQL issues but when you drill into the details for a specific SQLCODE or change the grouping to PLAN/PACKAGE/USER/etc the screen looses the total count of the SQL errors and only gives you the count ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Add JDBC Property "localBindAddress"

Remote Connections to a DB should only be allowed from specific source IPs. However, we do have multiple network interfaces in our UNIX environments (AIX, Linux). With MySQL and PostgreSQL, we can use the property localSocketAddress [1] [2] to cho...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

Create UI/UX for Watson Assistant users to view, delete, and add counterexamples

Currently, via the web tooling, there is no way to view or delete counterexamples in the WA workspace. You may add them using the "Irrelevant" tag in the "try it out" panel, but after that the counterexample is not easily inspect-able. This causes...
about 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

Send count(distinct ... for ...) to database when DB2_COUNT_DISTINCT_SCALAG (DB2 11.5.5) is active (Cognos 11.1.7)

We have thousands of complex reports with expressions like that: "count(distinct ... for ...)". Cognos (DQM) uses a workaround to push expressions like that to the database (row_number+count). This workaround works only in simple cases but not in ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Return information about a failed Lock-Escalation to the application

When a Lock-Escalation occurs it is documented by message DSNI031I (Lock Escalation has occurred) in the Db2-Master-Adressspace. But when a Lock-Escalation fails there is no documentation for this, instead it comes to a Timeout or Deadlock from a ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Announcements in multiple applications and plan

Possibility to centralize announcements to be sent to multiple applications and plan with a selection Currently is possible only application by application and it's very time consuming when you need to send same announcement to multiple application
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

ITC tables for pureScale

ITC are very useful to have table that have large batch deletes on it. Then space reclaim is a quite easy and fast task using REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS ONLY.
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enable developers to manage SAP Connections in DataStage Administrator for SAP and DataStage Administrator for SAP BW clients

Request to make users with Developer role possible to manage (add/modify/remove) SAP Connections in DataStage Administrator for SAP and DataStage Administrator for SAP BW client.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN for BLU tables

ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN is not yet supported on BLU tables.
over 6 years ago in Db2 1 Planned for future release

Improve Space Search Performance for Nearly Full PBR

Currently, when there are many concurrent inserts on a PBR which is nearly full, CPU and elapsed time for inserts increases by many orders of magnitude, to the point where it can completely monopolize the CPU on an LPAR. In past discussions, I was...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration