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DB2 LUW DBM CFG RQRIOBLK increase upper limit

When using DB2 LUW client to connect to the Z/os database using the IBM Datastage ETL tool the RQRIOBLK DBM parameter is limiting the packet size of data, this will happen with anyone who pulls data in any significant volumes using the DB2 Driver ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Avoid the database, configured in HADR, on primary side experience an outage when the database on the standby side experience any problem.

We use Db2 pureScale in many environments using POWER System. For our disaster recovery strategy we use HADR for each database between sites. In a specific situation of when some standbys databases experienced HADR_FLAGS = STANDBY_RECV_BLOCKED, re...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Warning error code for Db2 tablespace architecture limit

If Db2 tablespace reaches architecture limit of 90%, then there should be a Warning Message write into db2diag.log, so that before it is reaching 100% of Db2 tablespace architecture limit, this can be fixed. Now we are monitoring through a S...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 2 Not under consideration

Enhance SYSIBM.SQLFUNCTIONS to deliver meta data required by JCC (JDBC V4)

This is a quite old story. Back in 2015 this had already been addresses by COGNOS team IBM internally, but due to the possible impact to existing applications, it was refused to open an APAR for this issue. But RFE or DCR has not been opened by CO...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Adding enableWLB via command db2cli writcfg add -dsn <alias> -parameter "enableWLB=true"

As discussed in PMR 01458,999,724 adding enableWLB parameter with "db2cli writecfg add..." is a known limitation.Could you please remove this limitation. Workaround is to edit XML-file db2dsdriver.cfg manually.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

API(or Utility) to display to native DLL and jdbc driver version of DB2 z/OS

Hi IBM,Can IBM provide Utility or API to determine the native DLL and jdbc version of JDBC drivers? websphere application server z/OS is able to throw error in case of any mismatch between native DLL and jdbc driver versions?. why can't this can ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

A way can backup and restore pureScale instance

Currently an user is running a pureScale cluster, when all of the SAN disks(including the disk where instance path is on) were corrupted, he has to do the following to recovery the cluster: 1) replacing the corrupted disks 2) re-install and setu...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 2 Not under consideration

Allow public alias in export/import command

Db2 11.1 says that Public aliases can be used only in SQL statements and with the LOAD utility. (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPGG_11.1.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.sql.ref.doc/doc/r0000910.html) Please support export and import utiliti...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Add options for "recommend indexes" and "evaluate indexes" explain types to explain_from_section

When running explains from jupyter notebook, I prefer to use EXPLAIN_FROM_SECTION. However for in-depth analysis of indexes, I need the RECOMMEND INDEXES and EVALUATE INDEXES explain modes. These don't seem to exist for EXPLAIN_FROM_SECTION. This ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Enable compression for LOBs that are not inline

Customer would like non-inline LOBS to also be compressed, as inline LOBs can currently be. Many other datatypes can be compressed and there are many large (up to 20MB) LOBs that are stored outside the table that would not eat up so much space if ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration