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Support zip64 format on Symphony

Unzip utility used on symphony does not support zip package with zip64. I can see it is currently version 5 from the open source software info zip. If IBM can update it to version 6 it will simply resolve the problem. https://infozip.sourceforge.n...
8 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Under review

parallel insert into row organized table

parallel insert is only supported on Column organized table. insert into row_table select * from souce_table is very slow
8 days ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Submitted

Hidden Defined Name Ranges causing Performance Issues in PAfE Reports.

PAfE reports, especially those containing DBRW formulas, show poor performance issues due to a large number of hidden defined names saved in the workbook. The names can be created for a variety of reasons. IBM suggested using VBA to unhide the nam...
8 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Support SORTWK with EAV

We run a REORG on a tablepace (~5TB) with 3 IXs and need ~17TB sort space. One of the IX (an NPI) needs ~15TB. We had a pool with 30TB, but this does not help/count. Reason: As the allocation of the SORTWKs by DB2 is limited to 10TB (255 * the lim...
8 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

possibility to distribute event files over many directories or subdirectories

If there are thousands of event files under 1 directory the speed to access the files will be slow and much faster if distributed over many directories
8 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Support JMX metric Statistics for Kafka Consumer for IBM TCC Library product

It would be most helpful for Kafka performance tuning if there was a JMX metrics report for the Kafka consumer to analysis JMX stats for latency report. Could we dump the JMX values to a file the user provides as part of the IBM TCC Library API? T...
11 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Enable Role Assignment on the 'Manage Environments' Page within IBM Cloud enviornments

In the Manage Environments page for a user, please add the capability to assign the role in addition to the environment. Currently the assignment aligns to the role on the primary environment, however for some users we need this to vary by environ...
11 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

PASS/Websheets: Changing Zero Suppression value should force a REBUILD

Currently when you change the ZeroSupression parameter in a Dynamic Report (TM1RPTROW) it will cause a REFRESH, which is not enough to show/hide empty/non-empty rows. For this you need to manually do a REBUILD. In PAFE changing the ZeroSupression ...
11 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

PASS/Websheets: better handling of %-inputs

In a websheet that was formated to "Show empty cell on zero values" (in Excel), currently if you input "20" in an empty cell that was formated as a percentage, the value will then show as "2000%". If there already is a value in that cell (i.e. "30...
11 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Remove default grants to PUBLIC on SYSIBM tables

An IBM Db2 Security Health Check audit will identify a SELECT privilege held by PUBLIC on the SYSIBM tables as an issue, with specific concern when the privilege is held on the authorization tables (i.e. SYSIBM.SYS%AUTH%). The IBM Db2 Administrati...
12 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Under review