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Add Explain Support for Arrays

Add support to allow the explain of queries which use Arrays. Queries in NSPs can arrays, and if there is a need to tune a query which uses one, the only way to do it is to iteratively drop and recreate the NSP. This significantly slows down the l...
7 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow for Multi-select option for BE Selector Field Type

This was requested two years ago, but accidentally marked as 'Delivered'. Right now all Object types where users want to Identify (for example) Impacted Locations, admins are forced to create fields 'Impacted Location', 'Secondary Impacted Locatio...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 3 Future consideration

Add Confidentiality setting tag to Excel outputs

More and more clients are enabling and using the Confidentiality settings in Excel. This means that any Excel file opened in their environment, that does not have yet a Confidentiality setting (Public - Restricted - Confidential - Highly Confident...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Allow DDL changes on a table with full row logging

We want to use CDC to replicate data changes to a different system. We do schema changes once a month, and this complicates things a lot. According to our vendor, this is a limitation for Informix only, other source systems can hande DDL changes t...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Add a new security role to read the logs

Add a new security privileges to allow and restrict the log reads and history file.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Future consideration

Eliminate the need to bind a subprogram locally called by a stored procedure running remotely

Today there are different code pathes if a package is called remotely from a local program OR a local stored procedure. If the package is called by a stored procedure we get SQLCODE805 if no local package exists. Therefore we have the need to bind...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Monitoring Metrics Filter

Hi - While using DMC we noticed that its very much resource intensive since it monitor a lot of different metrics in database. There should be an option where we can use it for different monitoring levels like basic, avg or in-depth depends upon d...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Future consideration

Report Which Member(s) Are Holding Up Commit-LSN Advancement

Requesting that Db2 issue a message when the commit LSN enhancement hasn't made progress for in a reasonable period of time, preferably with the LSN of all Db2 members so that Db2 customers can identify which member(s) could be holding up the LSN ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add native "Cloud Events" standard support to IBM Mainframe software products similar to "OpenAPI" support in zOS Connect

"Cloud Events" is becoming an industry standard for async messaging and event publishing similar to how Swagger/OpenAPI specification became an industry standard for synchronous APIs. This also adopts another standard "Open Telemetry" that enables...
7 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Externel table support for: parquet, orc (big data formats)

Currently a DB2 external table support file formats like: CSV nad TXT; and there is also support for external cloud locations like S3, COS, Azure. The option to load data directly from a cloud data lake in hadoop file formats like: parquet, orc, a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / NoSQL 1 Future consideration

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