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Db2

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DB2 Purescale with Secure Linux Boot on RHEL enabled: should ship already signed IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) kernel modules

Background: Right now instance creation with DB2 PureScale 11.5 (FP8) fails when it comes to the GPFS part if you have Secure Linux Boot in Red Hat Linux enabled. This issue is documented in GPFS manuals https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/STXKQY/gpfsclus...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

DB2_FORCE_APP_ON_NUM_LOG_SPAN

Please provide a registry var DB2_FORCE_APP_ON_NUM_LOG_SPAN similar to DB2_FORCE_APP_ON_MAX_LOG.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Not under consideration

WLM thresholds and compound expressions

I would like WLM thresholds to have compound expressions.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

Increase maximum numbers of columns in an index key from 64 to 120

Db2 has the lowest limit of allowed index columns compared to the competitors.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Parallel index rebuild.

Allow to send the commands create index in parallel on the same table (or any other operation which could be parallelized).
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Not under consideration

Monitor to check for last successful db2 backup.

Monitor to check for last successful db2 backup. Useful to ensure availability. Simply checks for last successful backup with the threshold being number of days since last successful backup
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Not under consideration

Let Physical Detach and Attach Operations on the same table run at the same time

Today there is no timeout on Detach Physical Phase and Attach alter cannot run on the same table at the same time as Detach alter. Some detach alters are taking over 20 hours to finish placing daily partitions at risk of not being created. Also th...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Make online REORG respect UTIL_IMPAT_LIM

Currently, an online REORG will run as fast as it can (but I think limited to a single thread).It would useful if we made it respect the utility throttling limit that we have in place for other types of maintenance activities (runstats, backup, re...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Adjust F2 criteria for AUTO_REORG on adaptive compressed tables

AUTO_REORG uses reorgchk output, like F2 criteria. The problem is that F2 does not take into account pagelevel dictionary. The size can be important, like 5K out of a 16K page, and therefore F2 criteria is always below the 70%... and tables will k...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Marking range partitions in a table as readonly

Need feature at range-partition level granularity to mark it read-only so that no update/insert/delete can be performed on a particular range-partition. And by default (when not marked as readonly) all partitions carries table level permissions.Pe...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration