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Remove confusing warning WCZTM5043W about missing copybooks when running a Prepare COBOL

In WCA4Z, running Prepare COBOL always displays the warning message WCZTM5043W COBOL transformation preparation completed. Some copybooks were not found, potentially affecting the transformation process. Please ensure all required copybooks, inclu...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

We are looking for the status of the jobs to be added to the TWS download so that it can be selected when running the TWS graphs.

So because the TWS graph is show pending stratus's we are investigating job that do not run anymore or will be running as a future implementation.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

New ARCHIVE LAG TARGET parameter request.

DB2 doesn't have the parameter which will ensure that each archived log file contains no more than n seconds of changes (like Oracle's ARCHIVE_LAG_TARGET), for example, 1800 seconds. So, if DB2 will fill up the log file before the expiration of 18...
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Allow converting of the SYSCATSPACE to the reclaimable storage.

There is no way to convert the Catalog tablespace to RECLAIMABLE storage. The only workaround is to create a new database and to migrate the objects and the data. Since, we have a lot of databases which were created in pre-9.7 versions, we are stu...
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

SSL encryption enablement with data direct ODBC driver for DB2 Federation Server to SAP HANA

We need SSL encryption enabled with data direct ODBC driver for DB2 Federation Server to SAP HANA. This is the response from IBM Support team. Federation server doesn't support SSL with SAP HANA ODBC drivers. To connect to SAP HANA, customer has t...
about 5 years ago in Db2 0 Planned for future release

Need option in WCA to input a voice prompt

Why is it Useful? ============== Integrating voice prompt input into a WCA offers several significant advantages: Enhanced Productivity & Efficiency: Hands-Free Operation: Users can interact with the application without needing to type, allowi...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration

Implemented the support for XA

The .NET core started XA support from .NET 7 but driver has not yet implemented the support for XA in our core package. Functionality is needed to support 2 phase commit in .NET Windows application
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 2 Submitted

Db2 HADR PEER status enhancement

We would like IBM to look into adding an additional HADR state once the database comes into PEER. In Db2 10.5, there is an additional parameter, STANDBY_RECV_REPLAY_GAP that can hold large amounts of transactions that need to be replayed due to th...
over 7 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

DB2 performance - Hash partition table

On the VLDB - Very Large Database environment.DB2 should support hash partition table to improve performance especially pureScale environment.
about 10 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Kerberos authentication - ODBC driver - allow krb5.ini integration similar to JDBC driver for untrusted domains

Currently, JDBC driver allows an untrusted domain to connect to a target domain but providing configuration in a krb5.ini/krb5.conf file as to what the accessible kdc server is and the domain associated to that server. With an ODBC driver, there i...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted