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Line command '?' does not work on all menus, should be made consistent

In the Db2 Administration Tool v12, under the “Db2 system catalog” option, on the “Application Plans” and the “Table Authorizations” menus, the “?” line command does not work like it does on other menus. It returns an “Invalid line cmd” message.
about 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

CDC for z/OS should use the same access control module as DB2 for z/OS.

CDC for z/OS can use only Db2 ACM exit named DSNX@XAC, made accessible to CDC via STEPLIB concatenation. However, starting with DB2 for z/OS v10, customers can use a member name other than DSNX@XAC for the access control exit routine (zPARM ACCESS...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

ASNCLP to support a VALIDATE(NO) option

When creating new replication configurations ASNCLP checks the existence of MQ Queues, qmaps, tables, etc. When deploying to production, we need to have pre-prepared and tested the implementation scripts. However, because ASNCLP validates that the...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Q Apply issue a warning after exception due to OKSQLSTATES

Using OKSQLSTATES certain error conditions can be specified which will let Q Apply document a failing operation in IBMQREP_EXCEPTIONS.Today, Q Apply does not write out a warning into the log file if an exception based on OKSQLSTATES happened.Monit...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Planned for future release

Filter using comparison with Unicode character field

The handling of multibyte character set data has changed with V11.3.3 and some features which worked fine with V6.1 are no longer working correctly. In the present case the customer has row filtering based on a comparison of a column with a string...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Cross-Invalidation due to pcloset/p-lock negotiation avoidance

Problem Statement / Pain points : Whenever there is no R/W activity and PCLOSET threshold is reached, pagesets SWITCH OUT of GBP dependency and the pages in our Bufferpools are cross-invalidated . Thereafter when R/W starts again, pagesets SWITCH ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Support BIDI in DB2 REST API

we create db2t rest services that select string with hebrew letters from db2 table . The hebrew letters in the result ,display in a opposite direction (In The REST message) letters in db2 'אבגדהו'letters in the result (rest) 'והדגבא'
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Ability to specify cores or exclusive host for Benchmark job

Currently all benchmark jobs submitted via RTM use 1 core. Also, one cannot specify node to be exclusively used via bsub -x. This allows other jobs to land on same node and thus tainting benchmark numbers
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Planned for future release

"Create and run diagnostics" jobs action should available under "View platform health" permission

Related Epic CPDIDEAS-I-795 We have certain group of restricted users, who need to have permission for collect diagnostics data in case of any problem encounter with CPD and open support ticket with IBM. But these group of restricted users shouldn...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Support column level filters in SQL

LAT supports filtering on column level in detail reports, but the filter criteria is coded in a proprietary syntax that does not support SQL constructs (e.g. IN list). We use it to specify column level filters in SQL Syntax in our current tool. We...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release