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In AVZSIN00 - for the Define Database section the NAME parameter 4 chars is a limit

The name parameter has a limit of 4 chars. It is the connection name that user can see on DVM studio. Our external databases have names with more character and to have to convert them to only 4 could be a limit.For example ORAT1SRV need to be codi...
9 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable the publish or activation of a single action from a lower environment into Production, without requiring direct edits in the Production instance

To enable the publish or activation of a single action from a lower environment (e.g., Dev or Staging) into Production, without requiring direct edits in the Production instance. This would allow teams to isolate environments and maintain complian...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

dmctop should be able to work with pseudo-terminal

dmctop has the limitation that it does not work with pseudo-terminal In new sudo versions the default in /etc/sudores is „use_pty“. This setting is because of a security issue and should not be changed. This means that dmctop does not work togethe...
over 1 year ago in Db2 1 Submitted

DISPLAY BUFFERPOOL issues a message, TOTAL SYNC I/O DELAY FOR BP?? = ?????????? MILLISECONDS.

We are currently are running a bufferpool simulation in production. When I issue the command: -DISPLAY BUFFERPOOL(BP40) DETAIL(INTERVAL) The following message is issued: DSNB432I -DPP2 SIMULATED BUFFER POOL ACTIVITY - AVOIDABLE READ PAGE MISSES - ...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Dark mode option for the screen.

Staying hours in front of the screen is pretty exhausting for the eyes of fraud analysts. An option to turn it in dark mode will help to lower the stress on the eyes. Also colors will be more visible.
11 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Fix 'Pack LRSN field' description on help panel ALAZT780

From the Tutorial , option '78 LOAD expert options' the description of the 'Pack LRSN field' is incorrect."It does not change the definition of the target header column (if used), which is still a CHAR(12) field, but would contain only the packed ...
18 days ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Add millisecond to DTLRPT time field

The detail in the DTLRT include the time as hh.mm.ss but missing the milliseconds. This is import when we investigate the sequence of events of two processes or between sysplexes. (Replication Exceptions). One millisecond could make a difference.
18 days ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Increase width of GENRPT and SUMREPT

These reports are only 80 bytes wide. GENRPT: the report could be wider to accommodate a wider table name of 30 characters.Or, If an option could be added to produce a one line report, meaning for every table per URID, the report will be 240 chara...
18 days ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Increase length of Table name on all reports

On all DTLRPT, DTLSUMR, GENRPT, SUMREPT the table name length is 18 characters and overflow to next line. Since V8 of DB2, the table name was extended to VARCHAR(128). When creating a program to read any of these reports, one has to include extra ...
18 days ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Adjust header on DTLRPT to the length on Report row length

On the DTLRPT the record length of data portion can be selected but the customer, but the header is not adjusted to the same width [Report row length..... 15000 (00080-32752) ]
18 days ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted