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Global Setting for Default Saved Outputs

The current default setting for saved outputs on each report is 1. We would like to change that globally to a higher number, 5.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Better problem determination when error message is returned to the job submitter

When running a loader job that fails on authorization the submitter of the job does not get a proper message. The message emitted by the IDAA Loader is "HLOU5715E Unknown error during IDAA validation". This is in par with the famous Microsoft Wind...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Multiple hadr standbys in ASYNC mode

At present HADR claims to replicate to multiple standbys. While technically true this is practically false. Since all standbys past the 1st one must be in SUPERASYNC once the additional standbys 'glitch' up they stop processing logs and never proc...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Improve Job Priority Output to Exceed 1e6 as APS can easily increase Per Job Priority above that value

There is currently a system limitation that Job Priories above 1e6 do not display correctly when using bjobs -o "blah" formatted output. This is currently causing us a monitoring issue when attempting to order jobs with a very high dynamic priorit...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Account for slots given to an application when startup_cores_if_no_history is configured

Description: In the current implementation, startup_cores_if_no_history are provisioned for each application regardless of the slots in the grid, which can lead to overprovision. We would like to request that if the application has access to slots...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

Eliminate the need to STEPLIB SAVZLOAD

Currently the SAVZLOAD dataset is must be STEPLIB'd in: Our DVM procedures WLM environments where UDTF's are being used DSCLient jobs Internal issuance processing We are unable to add SAVZLOAD to LINKLIST since it is automatically added to LLA whi...
almost 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

DOE Startup and Shutdown messages

During DOE startup or shutdown could see the below messages in SYSLOG N 4000000 RS01 2022272 09:43:09.66 STC07246 00000090 IZPS001I IBM Unified Management Server is being started N 4000000 RS01 2022272 09:43:21.63 STC07246 00000090 IZPS001I IBM Un...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

About bjobs in different clusters

Suppose there are two clusters. These two clusters are being used by one business division. However, users who submit jobs are not aware of the cluster. They don't know what cluster they're using and they don't know that they need sourcing fo...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enhancements to NTH in the TOM

We are running OMEGAMON for DB2 V5R3 and have recently installed PTF UI50913 that makes Near Term History available in the TOM. However, we are noticing that there is some functionality that can be found in the CUA that is not yet available in the...
almost 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Performance Reporter update job for historical tables.

When a new version of Omegamon for DB2 PE is installed, the DDL is provided to create new Statistic, accounting, audit, etc history tables. IBM should provide people who use these tables jobs that will UPDATE the tables instead of expecting the us...
almost 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release