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SQL function LAG (and other passthrough OLAP functions) – implement natively Db2 Z !

SQL function LAG (and other passthrough OLAP functions) – implement natively Db2 Z ! Db2 Z provides some OLAP functions that are only available as passthrough functions that are only available via an “accelerator” https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-f...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Under review

Assume IAM Role instead of using IAM Access Key and Secret (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, follows a strict security policy based on the principle of least privilege, which requires all authentication and authorization operations to be carried out through IAM Roles, rather than using IAM Access Key and Secret pairs, wh...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Add a way to wait for bufferpool creation when creating tablespaces

What we do when creating tablespaces as part of migration files (think flyway, but any similar utility will be relevant) is to create a bufferpool and then create the tablespace. Example: create bufferpool dummy size 5000 pagesize 8k; create table...
20 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Change Load Backout YES delete log process

During execution of LOAD RESUME YES BACKOUT YES SHRLEVEL NONE LOG NO DISCARDS 1, if 1 duplicate row is funded, all rows loaded will be backed out, regardless if there was just 1 duplicate. DB2 call Data Manager back out all the other rows writing ...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow multiple hierarchies in the Measure dimension of a Planning Analytics (PA) cube to be used in Cognos Analytics

We have a Planning Analytics cube where the Income Statement Measure Dimension has more than one hierarchy. This works fine in a Planning Analytics Exploration and also in Planning Analytics for Excel, but it does not work in Cognos Analytics. In ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Under review

DSNTEP2/4 should issue Timestamp before and after SQL statement execution, or even better the delta ow long a SQL statement needs

If a lot of SQL statements are executed in one job and step, it is very difficult to find the SQL which takes the long time. IFCID traces on DB2 must be started to neil this down. OR another example is the fact that e.g. the first ALTER in a seque...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Utility History support to expand to record Utility Phase Level execution details

Utility History and the related object level history is a very welcome new addition. What will also be really useful will be the utility object level phase execution details e.g. CPU and Elapsed at every phase in the utility execution. This will p...
24 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Include Custom Runtime Environments in Deployment Space Export/Import

When users migrate Deployment Spaces between IBM Cloud Pak for Data environments (e.g., for disaster recovery or CI/CD purposes), custom runtime environments used by assets are not included in the export/import process. This limitation causes impo...
6 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Implementing a DB2 HADR Cluster Solution on AWS with Route53 in Place of Overlay IP.

As outlined in the IBM technote, implementing a DB2 HADR cluster using Overlay IPs presents several constraints. The Overlay IP must be unique within the VPC and on-premises environments and must adhere to the private IP address range specified in...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 2 Under review

IBM Lin_Tape driver support für Rocky Linux 8

As mentioned above, it would be great if you would consider supporting Lin_Tape driver on Rocky Linux 8.
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Under review