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Virtual SQL Tables in Data Rules

We use these for a variety of purposes and losing these forces us to us data refinery to cover similar use cases. This has several downsides, in particular that doing subsetting in a query is significantly more efficient than replicating the data....
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Ability to set defaults for data rules

We would like to be able to set global, personal, and project defaults for data rules. Project-level defaults would be highest priority. This should include output tables, sampling etc. This would make rule creation more efficient and consistent.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Rename Virtual Processor Core (VPC) in the DB2 edition-specific license policy.

Rename Virtual Processor Core (VPC) in the DB2 edition-specific license policy. The resource limitations described for Db2 Standard Edition in db2 luw NC reads 'You are restricted to 16 virtual processor cores and 128 GB of instance memory'. ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Please add the elements to 'LAST_REQUEST_TYPE' in the MON_GET_CONNECTION/MON_GET_UNIT_OF_WORK table function.

Please add the values from the following columns to 'LAST_REQUEST_TYPE' in the MON_GET_CONNECTION/MON_GET_UNIT_OF_WORK table function. (Please match the value of the STMT_OPERATION column in SYSIBMADM.SNAPSTMT/SNAP_GET_STMT) CALL EXECUTE_IMMEDIA...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Monitoring 3 Future consideration

Please add the missing SNAPSTMT/SNAP_GET_STMT columns to MON_GET_ACTIVITY.

1.SNAPSTMT administrative view/SNAP_GET_STMT table function is said to be replaced by MON_GET_ACTIVITY table function, but I would like to add the following columns because MON_GET_ACTIVITY does not have them. AGENT_ID STMT_TYPE STMT_OPERATION DEG...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Monitoring 3 Future consideration

When an archive file is deleted through Optim, the corresponding XML file should also be deleted.

This will prevent clients from having to manually delete files. This is being raised on behalf of case TS006385839.
almost 3 years ago in Optim 1 Future consideration

Send emial form StoredProcedure

having the ability to send emails from a stored procedure, would allow you to be immediately updated on the outcome of important processing
almost 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Enhancing Patient Safety when Potential Overlay is Identified Using IBM MDM

Issue: The MDM application leaves a PO record in an entity. This allows a search based off the PO ID or the PO Demographics to return an incorrect patient. Currently the application prevents returning the ID when requested which helps prevent send...
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 4 Planned for future release

Allow use of two factor authentication using smart cards for authentication for ODBC

Security requirements make us move to use two factor authentication when accessing Db2 for z/OS. We do have everything set up for the server side by using AT-TLS ServerWithClientAuth configuration for our Db2 for z/OS systems. We can also make Db2...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

Change Image Copy To Avoid Opening Db2 Data Sets When Making Conditional Image Copies

Our IBM Image Copy jobs are driving 10s of thousands of Db2 data set opens while doing conditional image copies. During our daily batch cycle the vast majority of the data set opens are not needed as there was no activity for the objects stored in...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration