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Add option :statement rollback is able to release the locks for the failed statement.

When -803 ( violating unique key constrain ) happen on a statement, there are two things happen1) db2 still hold the lock on the row accessed by the statement that cause -803 , no matter the statement had fail.2) The transaction was not rollbacked...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Specify Namespace without Gateway

As Cognos Analytics does not require the use of a Gateway it is being requested that the ability to specify the namespace to be used is provided. This functionality exists when using a gateway and specifying the Gateway namespace.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics JDBC driver support for AB Initio software

Hi We use AB Initio for data caching. Currently, we connect via ODBC. We want to be able to connect using JDBC. Currently, when setting up a JDBC connection AB Initio is not listed in the list of supported
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Clean left over job's daemon processes after job res finished

We have several workflows that the job script can run tools that will spawn processes in the backgroup or as daemons that will stay active once the job script ends. Since the job script ends, res will end with the exit code of the job script, but ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 3 Functionality already exists

Ability to configure Preview API timeout setting inside nginx API endpoint

Customers with large virtual assets that require 120+ seconds to query are unable to preview those assets inside a Catalog. The Catalog preview will fail with a 504 timeout error because the preview API timeout is set to 120 seconds. It is not cur...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Needs more information

Support Oracle Single Schema for multiple clusters data

In this link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=database-setting-up-external-productionYou have this precondition in the 'Before you begin' section: "For data security, each cluster should have a different database schema to...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Informix Purescale

Add DB2 Purescale to Informix. This would allow high speed replication via Roce.
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Official support for GCE storage for Cloud Pak for Data.

Ford standard is to use GCP storage for applications installed on GCP. The following storage options are currently supported on Google Cloud infrastructure, But Ford needs Official support for GCE storage for Cloud Pak for Data: • OpenShift Data F...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) should be able to use a DB2 file as input from iseries

Very often a user gets a list of (hundreds or even thousands) similar changes to make. He gets the list of course in excel or text file and needs to type these in a green screen (5250 emulation). In Client acces there was a neat solution for this:...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Force the system to register specific characters as normal text

Characters which provide specific function within Safer Payments such as (),{},~,*,? cannot be interpreted as plain text for rule writing. Merchant names, for example, may enter the system with these characters.
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration