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Ability to externalize Statistics to RTS after Runstats

In seldom cases (~1%) Online Reorgs abend because the TOTALROWS column in the SYSTABLESPACESTATS are wrong. Then we do Runstats and update the RTS. The question is, why the number of rows is not externalized after doing a RUNSTATS. The value after...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Future consideration

REORG SORTDATA NO should unload to shadow datasets and not unload to SYSREC

Changing DSSIZE for large table using SORTDATA NO, unloads to SYSREC. Since the volume of data is so large, SYSREC needs to go to tape. This causes the reorg to have greater elapsed time. Unloading to the shadows would greatly reduce the elapsed t...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Control Flow Guard (CFG) not enabled

BM Infosphere Data Replication Management Console, does not have Control Flow Guard (CFG) enabled. Control Flow Guard is a security feature which helps protect applications against memory corruption vulnerabilities by restricting where an applicat...
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Access applications in task pane instead of PAx ribbon

In Perspectives, applications are accessed through Server Explorer yet in PAx applications are accessed through the ribbon. Not only does this move impact the expected user experience for Perspective converters, but also creates many more clicks t...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Require NODEFDAC as a server side general setup

This is a follow up on RFE 34407.The original request was classified as "Delivered" but I'd say that veridict totally misses the point. The answer provided states that we can use informix.rc file to set the variable. That's true for UNIX. But in t...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Port config issue on deployment

We have been facing issues with pods during restart of services and found this is related to a bug gap in the REST API used for deploying new pods and the port range assigned. Please reference case TS012155811 for more details.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Under review

File upload check file types

When a user uploads a file for a TI Process Workspace should check the file is not corrupt or uploaded with the wrong file extensions. Users often don't understand the implications of file extensions and formats, so assuming this is correct can ca...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Replication support for HPSS feature

Technical Problem Assume there is a partitioned tablespace and some parts are archived via HPSS. Therefore, there are archived and non-archived partitions. Db2 transparent archive is not the case in this scenario. There is only one table with PBR ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

FTM needs the ability to prioritize Distribution messages in order of the Processing Window the batches are assigned to

If a large number of files come into the system just before and just after the cutoff time for a processing window, depending on the makeup of the files, some files after the cutoff that will be assigned to the next window can be sent to distribut...
9 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Under review

Improve QWT to suggest missing join predicates when not involved in declarative RI

Need to improve the tool to advise against missing lead index columns in a join. More detail in additional detail section.
9 months ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 0 Future consideration