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DSNKDX02 redundant index

There are two indices on SYSPACKDEP: CREATE INDEX "SYSIBM".DSNKDX02 ON "SYSIBM".SYSPACKDEP (BQUALIFIER ASC, BNAME ASC, BTYPE ASC) NOT PADDED BUFFERPOOL BP0 CLOSE NO; CREATE INDEX "SYSIBM".DSNKDX03 ON "SYSIBM".SYSPACKDEP (BQUALIFIER ASC, BNAME ASC,...
over 11 years ago in Db2 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...
almost 4 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 ...
almost 4 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 ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 4 Delivered

[Foundation][RFE][UC] - Provide systemd scripts for Spectrum Symphony

RHEL 7 and recent Ubuntu version use systemd as their default init system. To be fully supported by Red Hat and in order to get more control on when the service starts (order, timing, dependencies), it's a wise choice to provide a systemd script a...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Delivered

[Cluster Management] Allow new servers joining the cluster in "closed" status

We need to have a way to control the status of the servers just joined a cluster. Currently new servers join the cluster in "open" status which can start to run jobs right away. We need an option to allow servers joining the cluster but in "closed...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Delivered

Automation of DB2 Instance Creation

CloudPak Installation can be automatied, at the same time if we have option for DB2 instance creation using command line that would be helpful.
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Delivered

CPU Affinity and Restricting LSF jobs

I am launching jobs on a two socket server each with fourteen cores. Job 1 is using core1/socket1 and job 2 is using core2/socket2 each in exclusive mode. Since both sockets are being used in exclusive mode and since both sockets are in use no add...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

support for CPATH for all SSL communication

Support for CAPATH for all SSL communication - enable certificate chains to be used for all PS components when SSL is used.
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Delivered

DataStage resource tracker should be off by default

By default, the resource_tracker process is on for Linux and AIX customers, however, in newer versions of the software it ends up generating large numbers of hung processes that don't go away even when you restart the DataStage engine (see referen...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 2 Delivered