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Db2

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For Modify Utility, enhance to allow selecting SYSCOPY rows by TYPE (full, incremental) and DSN pattern (DBP.DB2.ICWKY*), Modify should also delete rows where there are no media.

Incrementals are only kept 14 days, Full IC are kept 30 days, DSN pattern DBP.DB2.ICWKY* are kept 30 days. Current Modify does not support deleting the SYSCOPY rows. All are kept 30 days.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Add BEFORE and/or AFTER clause to ALTER TABLE

For the ALTER TABLE statement, it's relevant to add an "AFTER ..." OR "BEFORE ..." clause specifying where in the table the new column is to be placed. This statement component exists in DB2 for i and in certain other databases (like Informix and ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 2 Not under consideration

Monitoring table function to display details on the application and its temp space usage

Often times, users would like to get a single view report on the application handles/ids, the corresponding process id and application usage of sys or user temp spaces and db2 does not have one monitoring table function to accomplish this. Users n...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Add a way to pre-encrypt db2 user password before adding it in response file to do db2 silent install.

We are OEM customer to provider our user Db2+Cognos installation, we're using db2 silent install with a response file, for now, there is no way (no tools, no command) to encrypt a plain db2 user password so that we can add this encrypted password ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade / Security 0 Not under consideration

ADMIN_TAB_INFO is sloooow and this has been the case for quite sometiome.

Extremely slow when used in a RP environment. Also used by check_upgrade which takes 7+ hours to run. Environment has 2million+ objects, 1 range per day for 3 years. Check_upgrade may be calling check for load pending which used admin_tab_info
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Restore Diagnostic messages

When upgrading DB2 LUW from V10.5 to V11.5, restore got hung after processing 830G [ full backup data ] without any message DB2 Support team was contacted to troubleshoot the issue, finally, it appeared to be an file lock issue, DB2 appeared to be...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

Bitwise operators bigger then 64 or 113 bits

We use the bitwise operators for a lot of things. Right now bitwise operators are limited to a 64 bits or 113 bits. We have a need to use bitwise operators at let's say 8192 bits; a number bigger than 113 bits.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

During rollforward to PIT from TSM, why does DB2 create the second LOGSTREAM0000 directory under the active log path of the database

During rollforward to point in time recovery from TSM, why does DB2 create the second LOGSTREAM0000 directory under the active log path of the database
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Set DB2_USE_FAST_PREALLOCATION on the stogroup level

We would like to have an option to set the allocation of a FS at a SG level to fast pre-allocation. We have large DMS temporary tablespaces that on a failover to our remote site, we rebuild from scratch. when rebuilding a large DMS temp FS (800GB)...
about 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Display row stats ( rows_read, rows_written, tq_rows_sent, tq_rows_recv) for each sub-section in MON_GET_AGENT

Currently, there is no equivalent of getting row level information ( TQ_ROWS_SENT/RECV, Rows Read, Rows written ) for each agent running within a sub-section which was readily available in snap_get_subsection or db2 get snapshot for application ag...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration