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deferring index creation with an option to not have to log the rebuild

This was originally opened in Aug 2013 RIMS database (as 8556) In Aug 2013 one of the ids-System customers, an insurance company, had to do an offline table reorg, which had to rebuild index at the end. This is an HADR customer, so index is fully ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

make db2.o and db2_64.o (odbc usage) part of the distribution and updates/upgrades

The information center documents how to extract shr.o of shr_64.o and move it to db2.o or db2_64.o. 'http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_10.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.apdv.cli.doc/doc/t0010406.html?cp=SSEPGG_10.5.0%2F4-0-1-1-4-2 .luw.apd...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

add option to bypass disk space check for the installer ids_install

The installer needs an option to bypass the file space check.
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

[User Interface and Configuration] EGO - Configuration - XSD file dependenices require internet access

running the following command requires internet access:wsdl2java -uri EGO_registration_soam.wsdl wsdl2java -uri EGO_users_soam.wsdl wsdl2java -uri Soam.wsdl We don't want any dependencies outside of FreddieMac, so all XSD files(including the depen...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 5.2 4 Not under consideration

Database sharding

The customer is considering to deploy multi-active system cross multiple sites, the distance among sites might be more than 1000km. The data could be distributed by hash, and rarely cross site data access by transaction/query. DPF might be a good ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Automate life cycle management of data

For the most OLTP system, some table only keep data for a period of time. We are looking for support to automate the management of this by DB2, ie. auto-prune older data.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Improve performance of DB2 BLU

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over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Change output from command GET DBM CFG

The output from the command 'get dbm cfg' without the option 'show detail' is misleading in that in shows the 'wrong' values for parameters that have been changed but needs an instance restart. It could be solved by changing the output to use the ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Option to disable Repeatable Read Isolation Mode

Some option to disable Repeatable Read. At least on the database level if not the instance level. Once set any set isolation to Repeatable Read statement would either return an error, or be transformed into Committed Read, or just be ignored, what...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

the OS_MEM_FREE Column from Sysmaster:SysMachineInfo is Misleading on AIX

Take for example the following query: select os_mem_free from sysmaster:sysmachineinfo; This returns the amount of free memory on the OS in bytes. Weappear to get this information from the same function thatgathers that info for OAT (via the SMI q...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration