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64bit Interface for PL/I Compiler

When using 64bit PL/I Compile with DB2, the compile needs to copy all parameters before the SQL database access below the bar, and back afterwards. Also, the each access to DB2 s dynamically allocated and deallocated. All in all, this results in a...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Backup/Restore all the services at one action

To backup/restore procedure for CPD has some steps and it is complicated. We hope we can backup/restore each pods, services, whole system including storage at one action ie Web UI.
over 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

JSON support using built in functions instead of UDF

JSON functions in DB2 are implemented as UDF functions and it is understood from IBM that there are performance implications for large volume processing using JSON UDF functions. We would like to request IBM to support JSON functions as Db2 built ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Filtertext should be formatable

The query filter text object should have style and format properties like other text elements.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Classic CDC to enable keep alive messages on the CDO connection

If there is no data changes to flow to the target , Classic CDC will leave the CDO connection idle. Something in the network path appears to be ending these connections such that when they are used after a period of inactivity z/OS Communications ...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Unit of Work - KCOP Commit operations

Source is --> ZOS Target is --> Linux Kafka using Confluent Bank of America is the client and they want our kafka message to be like their sample message below that client mocked up for the transactional commit : { 'Key {"CONT_ID": " 0739126...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

Set DB2_USE_FAST_PREALLOCATION on the stogroup level

We would like to have an option to set the allocation of a FS at a SG level to fast pre-allocation. We have large DMS temporary tablespaces that on a failover to our remote site, we rebuild from scratch. when rebuilding a large DMS temp FS (800GB)...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Tenant Export Feature Enhancements

The current tenant export feature does not export users "My Folders" i.e. their personal folders and schedules. The feature will export Cognos Custom Security roles which are in the Cognos namespace but does not include the membership of these roles.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide DSKEYLBL option in TEMPLATE utility

Currently there is no DSKEYLBL option in TEMPLATE utility, so if we want to encrypt the output dataset, we can not influence the allocation thru TEMPLATE.
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Subset use in PAW

We get lot of requirement to create alternate hierarchy in Tm1 for Account, LOB and GEO. This will increase lot of load in cube as we are increasing the number of cells in cube and hence impacting the performance . If we can use subset in PAW view...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists