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Db2 Developer Extension - Add support to execute external COBOL stored procedures from catalog list, save input parameters and reload saved values as well as generating DDL and dropping the stored procedure

Application Developers use Data Source Explorer in Data Studio to display external COBOL stored procedures from the db2 catalog. They right click and get options to run the stored procedure after inputting values, generate the DDL and can also dro...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Under review

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts. There are many customers requesting this. It is not always an option for customers to import this information or to enter the information via Controller Clas...
2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release

Create a native schema-type asset to associate database metadata with other assets and tables.

Today it is not possible to view database/schema descriptions in the IKC. Business analysts need this metadata on IKC to understand databases and relationships. BRADESCO is replacing the current IT data governance (EDC) solution with the IBM solut...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Allow RECOVER INDEX BACKOUT YES for index with COPY NO

The RECOVER TABLESPACE with BACKOUT YES is a relatively new recover option. It tells Db2 RECOVER to start with the current state of the tablespace and read the data change log backwards to find all recent changes to the tablespace and undo those c...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Content selector length in Workspace

when the book names are long, in the top bar to switch between tabs the names are cut and some dots are showed (attached an example) Ideally we would like to have the ability to change the lenght of the navigation area in the bar to allow to see f...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

Date Format for Scheduling Chores

Currently the scheduling of chores can only be configured in the US date format of MM/DD/YYYY. Would it be possible to also configure the PAW server to use another date format of DD/MM/YYYY?
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

IIDR CDC for Db2 for zOS Remote Source instance creation issue

During the CDC installation process, where the ./dmconfigurets tool is used, there are some options that can be entered as input, although they are quite limited. The need is to make the tool as flexible as possible and, allowing it to change the ...
21 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Remote storage and datalake tables for AIX

The feature is already available in Db2 for a while, but only supported in (Intel) Linux environments. IBM talks about the benefits of those features and related system architectures, but the feature is not available to many of our large enterpris...
3 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

CDC DB2z Remote Source With Started Tasks Create Temp Table With an IN clause in the DDL

Currently when using started task, a refresh of a table will cause a CREATE Table DDL to run. The DDL assumed the table will be created with the schema as defined in dmconfigurets program and will create in a default DB2 databases such as DSNDB04 ...
5 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Compilation of pipelines from GUI

Requesting for an option to compile pipelines from UI. We are successfully able to compile the DataStage flows from UI but looking for same for pipelines as well. We are compiling pipelines from command line using CPDCTL commands as a workaround.
5 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted