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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

Chrome and Edge Compatibility for Inspector

Our organization would like to sunset Internet Explorer and move to Chrome or Edge.
over 3 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Functionality already exists

Maintain/display target/apply replication I/O statistics for each Resource Map of a Subscription

It is necessary at times to confirm how many adds/updates/deletes have been applied/replicated to a target Resource Map "RM" of a Subscription. The apply process should maintain these replicated I/O statistics on the apply side at the RM level as ...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Real-time statistics with statistics profile can lead to deadlocks and lock timeouts

DB2 real-time statistics facility honors RUNSTATS options specified in the statistics profile, while performing synchronous statistics collection during statement compilation. If the statistics profile contains ALLOW READ ACCESS option, this can l...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

provide procedure to clean up explain tables based on given criteria and build RI to aid that cleanup

each time a bind is run with explain(yes) rows are written to multiple explain tables but there doesn't seem to be a simple way to delete all those rows in all those tables so that only the rows that correspond to the explains of current, previous...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Ability to create portal shortcuts to 'Other' Elements

The Analysis Studio package (and other items under the Cognos Analytics 'New->Other' menu option, have been marked for deprecation, but there are still many customers that wish to access this functionality. In previous versions of Cognos, users...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

make SQL cost estimation more accurate

DB2 for z/OS provided cost estimation before execution for each SQL.We can use explain to check that. And DB2 governor (DB2 Resource Limit Facitliy) use the cost estimation for predictive governor. How ever the cpu cost estimation is not correct f...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration