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Performance improvement for sync i/o

A track that is not fully formatted is not eligible for sync i/o (zHyperLink). With the existing code, DB2 sends sync i/o request to all tracks, even ones that are not fully formatted. These i/o get rejected and retried as transport mode. I'd like...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Issue with Kafka connector within DataStage.

Current State: When a DataStage job fails while reading from a Kafka connector, the records read from the queue before the runtime failure are marked as "read" and removed from the queue, despite the record not being passed out of the connector an...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Is a defect

Add another counter to indicate that access was allowed due to install SYSADM authority rather than modifying the existing PKG-AUTH UNSUCC-CACHE counter behavior

If Installation SYSADM is used for EXECUTE authority on a package, the entry is not cached in the CACHEPAC area. However, the PKG-AUTH UNSUCC-CACHE count will be incremented even though the Installation SYSADM ID is not being cached in the CACHEPA...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE - Enhance Kafka property files to store encrypted password for MDM Kafka publishing

Currently IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE v12 is not supporting to encrypt the Kafka user/password when publishing MDM message to external kafka server. IBM PMR team suggested to enter clear text password in wsjaas.conf file to pass the u...
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Under review

UNABLE TO SET EXTERNAL DATA FILE TO AUTOMATICALLY LOAD

PH30480 UNABLE TO SET EXTERNAL DATA FILE TO AUTOMATICALLY LOAD
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

QW148TTK unreliable when thread is in-doubt

IFCID 0148 Monitor Detail Record 2 field QW148TTK is incorrect when the thread being reported is in-doubt and as evidenced by cross-checking with DB2 -DISPLAY THREAD output. Requesting either a correct QW148TTK for in-doubt threads or a means to d...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Option to disable PAX config options for users

We would like to see an feature or option to disabled the user specific options in PAX. In particular we would like to prevent users from being able to modify the data row limit setting and any other settings that would allow users to run large MD...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need config param to allow user to specify what dbspaces should be used for Mongo collections

Currently (IDS 12.10.FC2X6) when a collection is created in the Informix server the dbspaces used are selected by some automated process. The user has no control where the data or indexes are placed. There should be a config parameter which could ...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

db2expln output with XML format.

The db2expln utility provides a plain text file only. Sometimes, OPTPROFILE can be added to tune some terrible SQL. The OPTPROFILE is XML format, but many users is not used to it. If XML format is supported as an option of db2expln then it would b...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Add Additional "stats" Table Metrics

For operations and KPI management, having some additional metrics in the various stats tables is important. For our use here, it would be helpful to have the following metrics: Pend Time Metrics: (eligible based upon job class not LSF setting)* av...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration