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Db2

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DENSE_RANK FIRST/LAST (Oracle function)

It is required for higher oracle sql compatibility,
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

connect_by_iscycle in Oracle

When we migrate from oracle application, the connect_by_iscycle is very difficult to implement at Db2 .
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

reduce I/O activity to /etc/services upon each connect

Using filemon, we see 191 accesses to /etc/services for each Connect statement. It seems this file should only be accessed once or twice. This has been verified by IBM personnel with ticket TS001677150.
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

NCHR for db2 LUW (new scalar function)

Oracle supports NCHR function. To migrate oracle application, we need this scalar function. NCHR returns the character having the binary equivalent to number in the national character set. The value returned is always NVARCHAR2. This function is ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Show altered Sequence value in Db2 Catalog

Currently the next value of a sequence can not be easily retrieved from the catalog after a ALTER SEQUENCE command (without retrieving it and increasing it at the same time). Especially when moving from one environment to another it is important t...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Create federation without ID and Password

Like Oracle's dblink, client want a way to authenticate when they access the nickname rather than when federation is created
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Sharing locks between transaction branches also when setting INTRA_PARALLEL is set to YES

We are using DB2 11 for LUW and for an application server we have IBM WebSphere Application Server 9. We have a cluster environment containing several servers. Our applications are running on different application servers(cluster environment) an...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Add flag into db2advis to ignore existing indexes

When troubleshooting performance issues on tables with a high number of indexes, the db2advis tool kind of falls flat. What we have done to get around this is to restore a backup of the database in question, drop all indexes, and then run the db2a...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Expanding limit of Maximum number of columns in a table - Db2

Hi, In Db2, currently we have the limit of 1012 as maximum number of columns in a table, We would request you to exapand this limit. thank you! Regards, Sankar
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Not under consideration

Tool db2batch should be able to display Number of rows affected

Often db2batch is used for tuning / benchmarking purposes and very often the number of affected rows is interesting. Command line tool. 'db2'. provides the option to display the Number of rows affected, db2 -tvmf <SQL-DML-File> $ db2 -t...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

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