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Fix code to address network bottleneck for backups

Running a backup of 70 TB currently takes up around 14 hours which is a lot. With fast backup storage backup could be completed in 2-3 hours. Problem is that despite the CPDS system having 2x25Gb network it should be able to write backups at 50Gb/...
over 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under 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

Provide End to End Latency at a level that is more granular than seconds

The End-to-End Latency metric value has a unit of seconds. Such granularity makes it difficult to determine the benefits/impacts of tuning efforts and configuration changes as well as any potential impacts during performance testing. All database ...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Drill through difference in IE from reports html vs PDF

When you open a report using html and choose drill through the screen looks different then if you choose a pdf and then choose the drill through. The PDF one allows you to see the parameters being passed but the html doesn't. See the difference ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

fencing agent handle promptly and avoid server reboot when it noticed minor lib changes at OS end

Dear IBM Thank you much for such great imitative on HA Auto failover feature on DB2 LUW. We have implemented PACEMAKER with fencing technology on huge number of DB2 servers. Following are the challenges which needs to be addressed and improve the ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Affinity support for windows compute servers

We have a mixed Linux/Windows cluster. Unfortunately the affinity string in the resource requirement is not supported on Windows. This leads to several problems: 1. jobs with affinity settings will not be dispatched to windows nodes 2. less perfor...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

Enhance advanced dispatcher routing to allow for AdHoc/Non-Core reports to be routed differently to "Approved" reports.

This would be useful, as it would allow the organisation to ensure efficient execution of "approved" reports (possibly driven by an administrative flag in the product) to dedicated resources, whereas other reports would be routed to a default rout...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Table Partition creation auto extension Functionality

Today DB2 doesn’t provide the auto table partition extension Functionality. We would like to have the Functionality available, could you please let us know if this is feasible and if yes how soon it would be available. This is Functionality is ava...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

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