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Db2

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Diag Lookup Tool

Provide a tool on IBM Support that show a better explanation of the message on db2diag.log according to the message. Some db2diag messages are difficult to understand.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Handle DECIMAL values with a precision greater than 31

Sprint's Hadoop/Hive environment supports DECIMAL values with precision > 31. To enable their users to use these columns in BigSQL, BigSQL needs to support this. (Salesforce case TS002907694)
over 4 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

DB2/PureScale Support for RoCE EC30 Adapers Under DB2/PureScale V11 + AIX 7.2

Provide support for the DB2/Purescale V11 + AIX 7.2 configuration with the RoCE EC30 (no IP support) adapters. We have 3 clusters using a total of 24 of these RoCE EC30 adapters. This configuration is running in our QA cluster. DB2/PureScale V11 s...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 with Db2 11.1

Our Linux team has already moved all our Linux platforms, with the exception of Db2 platforms, from SLES version 12 to 15. As there is no actual Db2 version that supports SLES 15, the concerned platforms cannot be upgraded.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

db2expln output with XML format.

The db2expln utility provides a plain text file only. Sometimes, OPTPROFILE can be added to tune some terrible SQL. The OPTPROFILE is XML format, but many users is not used to it. If XML format is supported as an option of db2expln then it would ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 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

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

Add NEWMIRRORLOGPATH option to the restore command

This should be a fairly simple change/addition and prevent the possibilty that the mirrorlogs end up in the old databases mirrorlogpath by misstake or during the time it takes for the administrator to do the change manually, since the change will ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 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

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE Allow implicit PACKAGE BIND by the application

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE change to allow an implicit PACKAGE BIND by the application. Currently Db2 marks the PACKAGE (SYSCAT.PACKAGES) as inoperative by marking VALID = 'X' which requires an explicit bind. This causes an outage in a 24x7 environment. ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

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