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Db2 z/OS limitations with ALTER TABLESPACE MOVE TABLE

I love the upcoming FL508 and this new availability even though I have not used it. Looking deeper into the Knowledge Center there seems to be some limitations that I would like to see resolved. The two items are: a) Exist in the same data...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

zSort information in Utilities History

When running some utilities Db2 can choose to use zSort. In Utilities History (SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES). there is a column SORTNAME where you can see if DSSORT or DB2SORT has been used. The information if zSort has been used or not is vital as it can ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Empty Remote DN in MX MSGs with manual entry in MER

We would like a warning MSG to be issued if Remote DN is not Entered in MX MSGs (DNIFINPLUS and DNIMX domains) because the MSG sent to InterAct will get the error in MSG Send Notification.
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Future consideration

Automatic generation of field MsgId: Message Identification in MX MSGs when entered manually in MER

Field Field MsgId: Message Identification is mandatory and unique so it should be generated automatically during manual entry of MX MSGs in MER
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Future consideration

DR Capability for DMC

Hello, We would like to have DR capability for DMC. So that, it would be helpful for us to monitor the DBs when there is a full or partial site failure.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Support legacy application types in PAx

Application folders are not only used for Excel sheets which is the only supported file type in PAx as of v32. Applications are used to:- Consolidate TI processes (for admin and business users)- Link to views in control cubes for metadata review, ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Null Handling with CDC live audit setup

Problem Statement: In our current CDC setup tables are mapped with Live audit where supplementary logging is enabled only on primary key columns and for other columns supplementary logging is not enabled. And hence we cannot differentiate between ...
7 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Avoid Reorg Abends by improving estimation of average row length

Today, for estimating the average row length being passed to sort, REORG gets that from catalog statistics with either AVGROWLEN or COMPRESSRATIO. The reason RTS stats is not used, is because RTS only contains the compressed data size.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Transparent HEX color for PAW color palette

On the 'line and column' chart in PAW, due to chart limitation, we cannot hide the first line as that corresponds to the first column values too. So the users have requested if we can at least make that line transparent on the chart. Is there any ...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

I would like to force the use of the "DEFER" option on the creation of an index (using Zparm to make it optional).

We have DBAs that at times (accidently) run a "CREATE INDEX" and fail to include the "DEFER" option. This is rather easy to do because the reverse engineering tools fail to create syntax with the "DEFER" option. The creation of indexes can be very...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration