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Db2

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Enhance db2exfmt

Please enhance db2exfmt to support querytag and queryno so that db2exfmt can format a previous explain when the timestamp of the explain is not known (and -w -1 will not work since it's not the last explain). This would allow scripting of multiple...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Enable automatic index reorganization in volatile tables for non-SAP databases

per case TS001700030: Db2 autonomic features make a great contribution towards customer loyalty, usability and DB administration. It is important to have all autonomic features extended to all type-customers and not just some (i.e. SAP databases).
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LOAD/IMPORT should support z/OS

With DB2 Connect you can easily execute DDL from a remote workstation to create/modify existing z/OS DB Objects. However, when you need to delete and recreate tables while keeping the data (and ALTER ist not an option) it is necessary to open a TS...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

Block locking for U/D on MDC when LOCKSIZE=BLOCKINSERT

Block locking is done for INSERTs on MDC tables when LOCKSIZE = BLOCKINSERT, which is a great benefit for memory usage, and allow to parallelize treatments for different dimensions. However, this is unsufficient, because treatments do also Update/...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Simple federated query against SQL Server nickname with predicate on partial PK takes 150+ sec vs 0.1 sec against source db

The following query takes a long time when running against SQL Server nickname. See case TS001550410 for more details select *from nn.PAT_ENC_APPT_NOTESwhere PAT_ENC_CSN_ID ='99999999'
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

NX842 hardware accelerated backup and log file compression for PPCLE

NX842 HW accelerated backup and log file compression is available on AIX. Why is it not available on PPCLE. All recent Linux distrubutions has kernel support for accessing this hardware accelerator.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 Not under consideration

Automatically detect and uncompress NX842 compressed files in LOGPATH, OVERFLOWLOGPATH, etc.

Sometimes when after databases using a redirected restore from an online backup or db2inidb from a flash copy we are requested to copy log files from source directly into the target LOGPATH or OVERFLOWLOGPATH so that a roll forward can successfull...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Compression 1 Functionality already exists

Extend the configuration control statements for Db2-supplied routines for program DSNTRIN with APPLCOMPAT a

Program DSNTRIN give the ability to pass some configuration control statement for DB2-supplied-routines as per the doc: Configuration control statements for Db2-supplied routines Configuration control statements supply the basic input for the DSNT...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

Call stored procedure from Cobol in SP

I have a Client that previously used this IBM.Data.DB2.iSeries connector, to execute local WEB sessions, they decided to go to the Azure Cloud, the only thing they changed to the SP was the IBM.Data.DB2.Core Connector, with its corresponding chang...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Future consideration

DB2 DMC AVAILABILITY METRIC FOR DPF INSTANCES

DB2 DMC currently does not monitor the availability of DPF instances (with multiple db2 partitions). it only supports single partition databases. we want DMC to report the DB as DOWN when any of the partition in the instance goes down rather than ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration