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e3270 needs to show which packages is invoked in a thread (like Db2 Classic)

In Omegamon Db2 v5.4 enhanced 3270 interface there isn't provided a way to see which packages has been invoked in a given thread : Neither in active threads (beneath panel KDPTHD52) Nor in Thread History (beneath KDPHISTL) The curren
over 3 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Call REST API triggered from DB

Currently we use external script to call APIs on data in DB and write back the result. Instead of using external script (Python, R, Node JS) to take data from the DB and call REST API and then write back the result to DB, it would be a great impro...
over 5 years ago in Db2 2 Planned for future release

Drop partition in UTS PBR RPN tablespaces

Dropping partitions in a tablespaces can only be done by dropping and re-creating the entire tablespace In earlier versions of DB2 for z/OS you could not add partition to an existing tablespace. Consequently we created about 60 tablespaces with 25...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

DataStage MQ Connector does not support use of the userid and password under UNIX

We are trying to configure MQ Connector to connect to MQ Server using userid and password. Connection fails with "2035 MQRC_NOT_AUTHORIZED". Connection works only without authentication. PMR confirmed we need to submit enhancement request to add n...
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

db2pd -db option not working with catalog-ed database alias

When using the db2pd command it will not function/work with a catalog-ed database alias as shown below:- /u03/db2inst1>db2pd -db csnxhadr -tablespaces Database CSNXHADR not activated on database member 0 or this database name cannot be found in...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Add link to alter from panel showing constraints

Refer to case TS004736427 "Primary key maintenance enhancements" The panel ADB21TN is the "Constraints" panel off of normal catalog navigation. It should have a command added to alter the constraint (simply send user to ADBP7CTP "Alter Primary ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

In the "Availability" alerts correct the "Log Space" to operate on current space usage rather than top usage. I don't see this as an enhancement - I see this as a fix for a broken feature.

Currently when you exceed the threshold there is an alert raised. Once the usage drops the alert does not drop. The only way to 'close' the alert is to stop/start the database ('Deactivate') - ie an exclusive outage. In a production database this ...
5 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Add possibility to view details on scheduled jobs as NOT administrator

When you have scheduled a job, reports and events you have to be able to view details of the different reports within 1 specific job. Now the view shows all reports and you are not able to see to which event/job the report is related. That should ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ONLINE REORG INDEX without logging for HADR

Our Application:24x7. HADR synchronous. LOGINDEXBUILD=ON because of HADR. We have large tables with lots of indexes required for performance reasons. Current problem:We are unable to run online REORG indexes for large tables as this overwhelms our...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Not under consideration

Use of Adobe Flash in OAT is a security problem, please migrate to HTML5

OAT makes heavy use of Adobe Flash. Flash is an increasing security problem and not supported on all client platforms. HTML 5 is an alternative and should be used instead.
over 8 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration