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External Table USING Options

Need to be able to create external table objects using all the "USING" options when writing to the file. The best example is that (VAR)CHAR type objects need to be written with "quoted" values (e.g., 'ABC",'DEF' written to the file instead of ABC,...
29 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

LISTDEF (like) utility

This is required so that the ability to perform various utilities (e.g., REORG) on multiple objects (tablespaces and/or tables) can be performed utilizing a list of objects.
29 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

Image COPY utility

Need an image COPY utility so that individual tables and/or tablespaces can be backed up. This is required so that an object can be restored to the COPY that was taken without bringing HADR down.
29 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

Preserve Activity Log when taking Report Period Snapshots

Whenever a Reporting Period Snapshot of the DB is taken, it takes along with it the Activity Log for that period of time. E.g. Activity Log will be blank across all records just after a reporting period snapshot is taken. We would want the activit...
29 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Under review

Openpages 9.0 Multiple Login Problem

Hi, For Openpages version 9.0, the application interface can be accessed from both sessions when logged in with the same user from different browsers on the same computer.We kindly request this problem to be fixed. While a session is active,when a...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Online conversion of index to partitioned index

Db2 13 Function level 500 introduces the online conversion of tables from growth-based (PBG) to range-based (PBR) partitions. The conversion alter is pending DDL applied by the REORG TABLESPACE utility. There is a need to also convert one or more ...
16 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Make Workload Index Advisor available to DB2 for z/OS Developer Extenstion users

Index Advisor provides index recommendations focusing on single SQL queries To avoid index redundancies developers need to be able to invoke Workload Index Advisor in order to obtain consolidated index recommendations based upon table or applicati...
3 months ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 0 Under review

I'd like to be able to push alerts from DMC to my central monitoring teams and tool (SquaredUp in my case). Or get an API to get alerts.

I'm running Data Management Console 3.1.12 to monitor and manage 125 database in our production environment. Today, the only way I found to get database alerts is to schedule a script that reads the alerts from my repository database and puts the ...
4 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Under review

Operational Risk Management OpenPages module - Inquiry Regarding Control and Evaluation Features Update

LA POSTE client expresses the desire to have the ability to conduct sampling checks through control grids and evaluations. In the absence of being able to duplicate the control grid for each sample to be checked, we have explored the possibility o...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Enable/disable data preview at connection level

In CP4D platform connection level there must be a setting to enable/disable data preview. Disabling data preview at connection level will be global and block data preview at any component, except Data Stage, of CP4D and any object (table, view, SQ...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review