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Parallel index rebuild.

Allow to send the commands create index in parallel on the same table (or any other operation which could be parallelized).
about 10 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

UTF8 conversion problem - EBCDIC

Message UTF-8 => After conversion in EBCDIC EBCDIC_STR('Hi, my name is Андрей (Andrei)'); => Hi, my name is \0410\043D\0434\0440\0435\0439 (Andrei) But for the character � (UTF-8 replacement character) the function returns the value X'3F' in...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Need ability to filter Free Text Search returned item attributes

Our users use the Free Text search in Product Master Persona based-UI to find certain items. Currently the item list that FTS returns contains random attributes and it's difficult to see the wanted item from the returned list. Proposed solution: N...
over 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Functionality already exists

Allow abort defragment

Allow abort the defragment command.
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

GOC should have the intelligence to know when to generate a rebind not using option (A, M, N) on the panel which causes unnecessary rebinds generated

Rebinds should be generated when needed not by using option (A, M, N) . The help panels and user guide have been updated to clarify option "A" means "All relevant. Run the rebind on all packages that reference any of the modified objects." Option ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Implement load-balancing in Cognos Analytics

Implement load-balancing in Cognos Analytics
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Intelligent Online Reorg Switch time calculation

In a 24 hour online Db2 environment it can be difficult to complete an online REORG because the VSAM switch phase may fail, due to the activity on the tablespace being too high. The idea is to use the system monitors or a log analyzer tool to look...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Data compress of CDC on network transmission

CDC needs compress function for lowing network traffic, especially on building data replication on long distance.
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to Cognos HTS Notification delete hotfix for Version 10.2.2

The hotfix that was provided for deleting the HTS notifications from the database does have a limitation where we are not able to select a day and time for scheduling the deletes. This needs the scheduling ability with a day and time. E.g. Every S...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance DB2 profile history tables for DataSharing subsystems - column STATUS

DB2 profile and attributes tables have related history tables, SYSIBM.DSN_PROFILE_HISTORY and SYSIBM.DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES_HISTORY. These history tables contain information regarding enabled profiles and attributes that were processed by a -START...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration