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Online restore of a range partition. Db2 takes a lock on the whole table during the restore.

I have a range partition table with NO global indexes. The partitions have their own tablespaces. Db2 takes a Z lock on the whole table when restoring a single partition.We thought that we could restore a partition online and that all the other pa...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Granular security for IZP resources.

We need more granular security for UMS resources in the IZP resource class. Today there is IZP.ADMIN* and IZP.SUPER* But we need to be able distinguish between access permissions for different environments. For example, for Production would like s...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DB2 HADR Standby Database act as CDC Source

We use DB2 ,DB2 HADR and CDC in our production system. Now we can only use the DB2 HADR primary database as CDC source. DB2 HADR standby database can not support acting as CDC source now. So we hope add a new feature,ie : DB2 HADR Standby database...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Symphony management console (webgui) not able to produce Standard report for Network in/out and Disk I/O for Windows compute hosts.

Symphony management console (webgui) not able to produce Standard report for Network in/out and Disk I/O for Windows compute hosts. Such reports help business and technology team to study workload pattern, performance review of hardware assigned t...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Submitted

Ability to restrict usage of an attribute defined at upper level mandator in lower level mandators in the mandator hierarchy

Currently client users can use all the attributes defined on the root mandator on rules and investigation queries . Certain attributes are defined at the root level are purely internal and we want to restrict the visibility and usage of this attri...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

remove limitations in workfile database which leedsto outages

When a workfile is created Db2 increments obid, when a workfile ist dropped the obid is not released by Db2. There is a restriction of maximum 500 workfiles. When the limit has been reached, no more work files can be created, SQL code -497 is retu...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Schedule FAP data mart start / stop and update structure

Functionality to schedule FAP update structure and full publish ( data mart start and stop). Currently user need to regularly go to FAP client and click update structure. Case Number: TS000073673
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Reset dashboard to default settings.

Reset dashboard to default settings with e.g. a button. -reset filters in "explorer view" . (not filters done in edit mode) -reset drilldowns with the same button It must be easy for a user to reset a dashboard to default settings in an easy way. ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Full HDR switch between primary and secondary with a single command and without any downtime

We have 2 servers with 2 HDR instances each. For each cluster we have also 2 connection manager each. On server one there is the primary of cluster 1 and the secondary of cluster 2 On server two there is the primary of cluster 2 and the secondary ...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to delete orphaned jobs on Platform

Currently, the only way to delete orphaned jobs is to remove the directories using these commands: rm -rf /data/pipelines/<pipeline ID> rm -rf /data/runInfo/<pipeline ID> Please add the ability to delete orphaned jobs for either the fo...
4 months ago in StreamSets 0 Future consideration