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Show session_id - port relationship

It would be nice to see which ports / DBSERVERNAMEs / DBSERVERALIASs are being used by session ids. Either through an onstat command or sysmaster tables.
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Need the capability to connect to Data Stage directly to Import Data Stage job's for lineage in the IKC

Need the capability to connect to Data Stage directly to Import Data Stage job's for lineage in the IKC 4.8.1
9 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Not under consideration

Allow a Db2 z/OS Server to request clients set other JDBC Data Server Driver parameters, such as minTransportObjects or maxTransportObjects

In FL502 of Db2 13, IBM offers MODIFY DDF with the "RQSTWLB" option which allows the Db2 server to tell clients to enable Sysplex Workload Balancing (enableSysplexWLB=true) as long as the client doesn't explicitly set WLB to "false". It would be b...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

SQL type Query solution on DS job meta data, like 11.7 DSODB, XMETA tables

GM is running DS 11.7.4 currently, and has at vertical application teams who have their own SELECT queries on DSODB DB tables attached to their instance of DS platform, for jobrun statuses (success/failure) & statistics of job start/end runtim...
9 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Capability of disabling file download/upload for storage volumes

Update 03/28/2024 Promoted to ICPD-1520 scheduled for v5.1 Disabling uploads to storage Volumes completely across all users is possible quickly. This should be done in 5.0.x releases by simply adding a configuration in the backend. However, I woul...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Planned for future release

Db2: Recovery of Mainframe Db2 databases without applying changes.

When the DB2 is performing a recover it uses log and copy files, it may be some sitations where the log contains changes that we dont want to restore. For exemple we may have inserts made by an authorized program and also updates performed by an u...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Application Object Branding

Allow for branding of application objects such as lists, prompts, and other objects. Currently, the object itself (e.g. list header, background color, fonts, etc.) has limited or no customization options. When creating branded templates for report...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Multithreaded Refresh for iSeries

Currently when a refresh occurs in iSeries to DS_FF or any other DB it uses the native method to do the refresh with single threaded - This can be improved by using the JDBC method where they should be able to use multithreaded. In the iSeries Cur...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 6 Not under consideration

LOAD should allow collecting STATISTICS without USE PROFILE option for row based tables

LOAD collects "default" statistics like auto-runstats when loading into BLU (RUNSTATS ... WITH DISTRIBUTION AND SAMPLED DETAILED INDEXES ALL).I assume this got not changed because the fear of incompatibility with existing behavior. Therefore pleas...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

ALTER TABLE LOCKSIZE TABLE for BLU tables

ALTER TABLE LOCKSIZE TABLE is an easy way to save lock list and lock acquire for tables that just get accessed by a single application at a given time.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration