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Db2

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adjust card estimates on predicates using both COL = '?' and COL > <value> similar to accounting for NUMNULLS

Component: DB2 optimizer When a column is NULLable, a predicate COL = ? will account for numnulls to estimate cardinality. The problem comes when column is NOT NULL, and "the NULL value" is a real value. Peoplesoft has been designed to use a major...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Avoid SQL0955C Sort memory cannot be allocated to process the statement. Reason code = 3

It would avoid Db2 errors and interruptions. Every customer using Db2 BLU who ran (or will run) into SQL0955 RC3 errors would benefit.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

db2pd -dump enhancement

Hello, Sometimes there is hung situation when we run db2pd -dump . Is that possible to enhance the db2pd -dump to throw the error messages instead of causing Db2 hung situation?
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 2 Not under consideration

Grant 'create, drop and alter a tablespace' authority to specific user

The Sysctl group can create, drop and alter a tablespace in db2 and also have all authorities of SYSMAINT and SYSMON. Customer just want to give tablespace control authority to specific user.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

add option to installFixPack command -f nojava

IBM ask to update java few weeks ago Then IBM ask us to apply a fixpack on our DB2 databases. The command installFixPack apply the DB2 fixpak and also install a new java version older than the one we installed few weeks ago. Could you modify...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

DBA needs control over Jobs from Automatic Maintenance

We recently had an outage due to automatic maintenance - reorg on a table to reclaim extents. Application A (db2hmon) was running a reorg reclaim on a table and Application B which was already connected to the database and was running a job, as a ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Redesign of cleanup on remote cursor load of LOB data

Customer migrated from DB2 9.1 on Solaris to DB2 9.7 onLinux. As restore is not supported between different endianarchitecture, load by remote cursor was used for datamovement. There was one single table storing about 400 GB ofLOB data (BLOB), tot...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Add the new IF EXIST functionality to db2look

The new syntax IF EXISTS for CREATE and DROP TABLES (see https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.aha.io/ideas/DB24LUW-I-259) should also be generated by db2look on demand. This would help and simplify migration scenarios with db2look. This should also be a...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Make NUMBLOCKPAGES automatic/self tuned

Make the value of NUMBLOCKPAGES to be automatically computed as a percentage of the total number of pages in a bufferpool AND/OR make at least the update of such value an online operation.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Add support for database SINGLE_USER mode access

Time to time there is requirement to be the only user on the database like drop and create database, but there are also users with system authorizations connected to database. Or there is product (even from IBM) like Maximo: https://www.ibm.com/su...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration