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truncated hostnames in bjobs output

For a debug where hosts are available but jobs are not landing on them - I need to run bjobs -UF (or -l) -p2 This command generates below like data structure Slots are reserved for guarantees: xxx3-sim-d18-081, xxx-sim-d18-077, xxx- sim-d30-065, x...
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

Add timestamp to all -DISPLAY command outputs

More and more companies are using multiple DISPLAY commands to track for problems or usage statistics etc. The problem is that the TIMESTAMP when the command was issued is not in the output (apart from DISPLAY BLOCKERS) It would be really good to ...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

AutoAI Similar Capability for Evaluating LLMs

It would be useful to setup benchmark tests for different runs (models, parameters, etc.) with an easy to test toolset. It helps Data Scientists and AI Engineers to evalutate the output of models with scale.
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

IBM should consider releasing Db2 database software as an RPM

We currently create our own RPMs from the database software downloaded from Passport Advantage. This is time consuming and can be eliminated by having IBM package and distribute their software as an RPM for easier consumption like other DBMS vendo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

Incremental backup of LOBS

Incremental backup of db2 should do INCREMENTAL backup of Large Objects (Blobs, Clobs etc). I am referencing this two limitations: 1. If a table space contains long field or large object data and an incremental backup is taken, all of the long fie...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

CDC Reduce Authorities required

The IIDR Oracle Xstream agent requires high levels of db authorities like create any table, drop any table - these are not required when the agent is only being used as a source and cause problems with our security guidelines and policiesWe would ...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Make adoption of forest-of-trees indices easier with existing large tables

Rebuilding an index as a FOT is not supported using "alter fragment on index init". This would be useful to avoid dropping and later re-adding primary keys and referencing foreign keys. Building a FOT index is not possible in parallel. Building a ...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow the use IAM role authentication to establish this connection instead of the access key and secret key

Creating a storage connection in Cognos Analytics requires access key ID and the secret access key only. We would like an enhancement to allow the use IAM role authentication to establish this connection instead of the access key and secret key
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

ADM - PANELID ADB1S - DROP at COMMAND line does not provide process to DROP RESTRICT ON DROP

Dropping at the command line does not allow the capability to have DROP ON RESTRICT ALTERS be generated. When entering DROP in the SELECT field, panels are displayed to accomplish this. This should also be done for DROP at the command line. This s...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to set PAW sheet or widget to auto-refresh data periodically

We have received interest in "real-time" capability. While we are able to schedule data processes in the background to simulate real-time data updates, the front-end is a limiting factor in displaying this data. It would be useful to be able to se...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration