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SQL-based hint capability

As we all know are not all access paths optimal, sometimes the optimizer makes a wrong assumptions are maybe all necessary stats are not always available. Therefore it would be beneficial to have an SQL-based syntax, e.g. as a common table express...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Request immediate effect change of DBCREATE_PERMISSION parameter without restarting IDS instance.

I appreciated that security feature DBCREATE_PERMISSION parameter was introduced since IDS 10.00. I would like to request to enhance this feature to be dynamic whereby this parameter can be changed and taking immediate effect online with restartin...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

alter tablespace to convert PBG to PBR online

Changing a PBG-tablespace to a PBR one means dropping and recreating the object, involving a number of related tasks such as UNLOAD, LOAD, CHECK asf.
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enhance SPT01: max partition to more than 1, and Sysadm can amend the PART Size from 64gb to 32gb .

The Tablespace is in VSAM-E format with 252 Extends in already 32Gb size. It cannot create the 2nd Partition .Because the max partition of SPT01 is 1 and the partition size is 64gb. When application sharing the testing environment of UT, ST, SIT ,...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Allow for 16 IFI trace outputs to run concurrently

When a program starts a trace that is to go to destination OPX, there are currently only 8 of these that can be run at a time. This can be somewhat constraining (and has at times caused us some issues). Could this limit be bumped to 16 with the de...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

DB2 V10 Object rename improvement

Slow object renames in DB2 V10. Need to add index to the SYSTABAUTH table. Changed function from V9 to V10 - Removed links Info from PMR 19771: These 'internal queries' don't go through normal access path selection. They have a 'hard coded' access...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Show SQL Session ID on IWA tasks query "ondwa tasks"

Allow a method for an Administrator to link an IWA task with the correspondant SQL Statement. This could be done by showing the SQL SesId on "ondwa tasks" command or to add an onstat command to show the sessions and the IWA task ID when a task is ...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Compatibility to MySQL SQL Syntax - Omit unnecessary FROM Clause

MySQL provides some SQL syntax features which Informix does not provide. One example the customer mentioned was the possibility to omit the FROM clause: SELECT 4+5 ; Using Informix a from clause is necessary: SELECT 4+5 from sysmaster:sysdual;
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Utility Execution History RFE 43637

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=43637 We would like to keep and see the execution statistics and information of the hpu unload jobs(such as elapsed time,cpu usage,jobname,sysin,dbname,tsname etc.) Use Case ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Delivered

Improve IDAA load throughput beyond 2TB/h

Banco do Brasil has a warehouse (to be accelerated by IDAA) that has 150TB of data today, and will grow to about 380TB by end of 2014. Many of the big tables get changed by non-logged operations, table and partition re-load is the only option to k...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered