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Db2

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Poor performance on DB2 V11.1 due to changes in build process

Some customers are noticing performance degradations moving from v105 ESE to v111 ESE on the same hardware.These degradations are most pronounced in OLTP workloads, with an emphasis on INSERT and UPDATE operations. Db2 Support has confirmed that t...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Default of for read only for all select statements

As you might have noticed, the "for read only" clause of the select statement in DB2 is not widely known nor used. Most standards select statements going through the DB2 engine have the risk of becoming an ambiguous cursor with sub-optimal perform...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Backup Db2 to on premisses S3 API devices (ie. EMC ECS)

Backup Db2 databases to low cost object storage devices such as EMC ECS using the S3 API. The current implementation of the S3 interface only works for a small list of known S3-style endpoints. (ie....s3.amazonaws.com, softlayer.net). This would ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

HADR/TSA/DB2 hang detection feature to have TSA automate a failover during a database hang

Today in HADR failover scenarios we do not detect the database hang on the primary and failover the database to the secondary servers using TSA automation. we need the script needs to accommodate the database hang and failover the database to the ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

Remove serialization when using DB2 Federation to access a delimited file

If you define multiple nicknames in DB2 federation server that access a delimited file, they are serialized thru a common 'channel' that accesses the file resulting is long elapse times event through there are system resources available. Please re...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Fluid Query 1 Not under consideration

Db2 HADR PEER status enhancement

We would like IBM to look into adding an additional HADR state once the database comes into PEER. In Db2 10.5, there is an additional parameter, STANDBY_RECV_REPLAY_GAP that can hold large amounts of transactions that need to be replayed due to th...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 3 Not under consideration

Increase the maximum size of a LOB object per table or per table partition

SQL and XML limits https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_11.1.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.sql.ref.doc/doc/r0001029.html The maximum size of a LOB object of 4 terrabyte leads to the necessity of partitioning the table just due to this limit. S...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 2 Not under consideration

Operation guarantee for DB2 v11.1 Federation Server

System DB2 v11.1 Federation ServerRequest: Provide operation guarantee for Oracle NET client 12.2.0.1 for Data Source Oracle Database 11gR2(11.2.0.3) URL: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27049211 ---------------------12 One of t...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

TO_MULTI_BYTE (oracle function)

It is required for higher oracle sql compatibility,
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

PIVOT/UNPIVOT (oracle function)

It is required for higher oracle sql compatibility,
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration