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Support IBM DB2 on Amazon Linux2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has End of life as April 2021. We use IBM DB2 11.1.4 Enterprise Edition on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for our MDM instances which is not compatible with the higher versions of Ubuntu -18.04 LTS and above. Same is true for the updated versio...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Autobind retries

We would like in the form of a zparm parameter or as a parameter within a package the ability to have failed autobinds of packages be retried a number of times based on this parameter. We have a routine process that does several alter rotates whic...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Multi-Row Fetch/Insert - COBOL Programming Modell

Customer addressed to IBM that the use of DB2 Multi-Row Fetch/Insert is not well accepted by the developers since it increases the programming complexity a lot and is not ease to use in COBOL. Initial discussions pointed to the already addressed "...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Bypass Package BIND/REBIND Locks for EXPLAIN(ONLY)

We have an analysis tool that we use to analyze potential changes in access paths. For timeliness of analysis our need is to use this tool during the business day. The tool uses EXPLAIN(ONLY) as a BIND parameter. Based on system workload, we exper...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

PAX TI Process Status

When running TI process from the task pane in PAX no indication is given whether the process finished executing or not. There should be a message box similar to that of action button.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBM Infosphere CDC to support the remote journal in the same iSeries Lpar

This is Shane from HSBC. We selected IBM Infosphere CDC for real-time data replication from iSerise to Oracle in Linux. Background/Pain-points: Our system in iSeries uses single journal for all database, which associated more than 40K files. Du...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

If ADMIN_UTL_SCHED is used for imagecopies it should put the triggering jobname/CorrID into SYSIBM.SYSCOPY

If ADMIN_UTL_SCHED is used do to image copies it writes the name of the wlm-addressspace to the jobname columne of SYSIBM.SYSCOPY. We like to see the name of the triggering job/CorrID there, because we need this information. An alternative would b...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason

"LSF does not support reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason (about license)." Let me provide a portion of the bsub statement from our case to exemplify the customer's dilemma. bsub -R "rusage[mem=3000.00:duration=1m,md_r...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Ability to select valuation date in dashboard

When a dashboard is created, currently it just supports the latest data view. Valuation date functionality would be an amazing feature to add.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Aging of connected accounts to Access Server

When a client forgets to sign out of Access Server and shuts down their session, Access Server keeps them logged in. The only way to clear the session is to restart Access Server. This is difficult in a multi-user environment (as product is design...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration