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Db2

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automatically applied DB2 fixpack at deployment time

that there is currently not a way to automatically have a DB2 fixpack applied at deployment time (other than to write a script package to start a DB2 fixpack install and have that script package executed at deploy time).
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Allow more then 8bytes for DATABASE NAME.(RIMS)

Database names are currently limited to 8 characters (bytes) in size. This is painful when dealing with hundreds/thousands of databases.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Parallel index creation for partitions of a partitioned-table(RIMS)

[JPMC EDW] Currently, a create-index statement with the PARTITIONED clause will process each partition sequentially. Ideally DB2 would perform this with some degree of parallelism. Currently, this can be accomplished by detaching the individual pa...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Victimization of unused compression dictionaries from DBHEAP(RIMS)

Compression and Expansion dictionaries for each object (table, index) remain in memory until database deactivation time. This is problematic because enough DBHEAP must be allocated to host a compression/expansion dictionary for EACH object that is...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Oracle-style isolation level 3 (multi-version read consistency) locking.(RIMS)

A description of Oracle's 'multi-version read consistency' can be found here: http://www.ss64.com/orasyntax/10locking.html. Even DB2's most liberal CS isolation is more strict then this. [update 04-27-2009]: Support for isolation level 3 queries t...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 1 Not under consideration

Creation of range-partitioned tables during TRANSPORT

Whilst working on a recent pureScale POC with a customer, we came to the stage of upgrading their existing database to pureScale. Existing database had a catalog SMS tablespace. pureScale has a requirement that all tablespaces have to be AUTOMATIC...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Vmotion support for pureScale

Currently State Farm uses Vmotion 5.5 in their VMware environment, which enables the live migration of running virtual machines from one physical server to another with zero downtime in their VMware environment. PureScale currently does not suppor...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

In IDA, enhance the graphic rectangle functionality

Currently, the rectangle symbol is limited. Text can only be aligned Left-Middle-Right. Also, some other symbols fall "behind" the rectangle when it is moved to the very back of the order, specifically dependency symbols.
about 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Simplify shadow tables replication

Integrate the CDC engine in the DB2 engine and allow to configure the replication with SQL commands.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

List node & db directory using SQL

Create two new functions to list the content of the database and node directory.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration