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Db2

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REST API call from stored procedure

Calling Watson APIs directly from DB through stored procedures like in DB2 with DB2XML.HTTPGETCLOB function.This feature would allow to build more integrated and more simple workflow for our Clients. Watson NLU, NLC, Translator are in use at this ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enable EXPORT to use a Storage Access Alias

Enabling EXPORT to use a Storage Access Alias will be very useful for DBA's using both on Prem and Cloud environments. It can only be used by LOAD/INGEST/BACKUP/RESTORE at the moment. Adding the capability to store data on object storage in the cl...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Date type compatibility in ORA mode

Although Oracle compatibility mode, the result of date type operation differs from that of Oracle. Because the output are different, customer need to modify the application source. so they wants to see the same result as Oracle.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

event monitor tables (activity/actitivtystmt/activitymetrics) should support range partitioning

event monitor tables do not support range partitioning. In addition, you can not create expression based indexes on them. This makes them more difficult to manage and query. create event monitor wlm_activity_mon for activitieswrite to table activi...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Bitwise operators bigger then 64 or 113 bits

We use the bitwise operators for a lot of things. Right now bitwise operators are limited to a 64 bits or 113 bits. We have a need to use bitwise operators at let's say 8192 bits; a number bigger than 113 bits.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Make DB2_USE_ALTERNATE_PAGE_CLEANING=ON the default

DB2_USE_ALTERNATE_PAGE_CLEANING is of great benefit for performance and scalability since it was introduced in v8. It's now the default in pureScale and BLU environments, so why can't we make it the default all around?
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Temporal Table extension for Auditing and Interface Design

Add functionality to allow the use of temporal tables for auditing purposes by adding functionality like in Db2 for z/OS: - A column GENERATED ALWAYS AS (DATA CHANGE OPERATION)- ON DELTE ADD EXTRA ROW functionality to record who deleted a rowIn co...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Online db encryption at rest

To implement encryption at rest - we have to do backup - restore i.e. outage to application. OUtage can only be avoided in case of HADR setup which is not always the case. This RFE is to bring feature of online db encryption without any outage to ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Enhance CREATE TABLESPACE or CREATE TABLE to have MEMBER CLUSTER for PureScale

We want to be able to have tablespace use MEMBER CLUSTER for PureScale just like the mainframe.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Simple federated query against SQL Server nickname with predicate on partial PK takes 150+ sec vs 0.1 sec against source db

The following query takes a long time when running against SQL Server nickname. See case TS001550410 for more details select *from nn.PAT_ENC_APPT_NOTESwhere PAT_ENC_CSN_ID ='99999999'
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration