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Db2

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Need easy to use backup/restore solution for text search indexes

Rollforward recovery, PIT recovery with text search indexes is a manual and error prone process. It often means recreating the text indexes to match the data in the tables. This is extremely time consuming.The Db2 for z/OS solution for text indexe...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Text Search 0 Planned for future release

Require really fast fuzzy text search

Current fuzzy search using text search indexes is really slow. Need a subsecond answer for millions of rows.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Text Search 0 Not under consideration

Performance penalty in LOAD when using large bufferpool

LOAD RESETDICTIONARYONLY and other LOADs take very long, if table resides in large buffer.The limitation also applies to LOAD on row based tables, but bufferpools on BLU systems tend to be much larger.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN for BLU tables

ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN is not yet supported on BLU tables.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Planned for future release

Section actuals for BLU

Collecting section actuals and compare it with the SQL compiler estimates using the db2caem tool is quite handy to find cardinality mis-estimates in huge plans.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Support for old system date

Db2 v11.1 can't start when system date is old(ex.2013/06/18).The error message is that the license has expierd. Even if Db2 is evaluation version.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

DB2 online backup using Tivoli Storage Manager causes DB2 hang

Fix the online back freezing issue as described at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21979921
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Customer need Db2 pureScale to support RDMA on VMWare

As you know today Db2 pureScale run on VMWare only support TCP/IP for interconnect communication. VMWare claim that they support PVRDMA now. So customer need Db2 pureScale to certify and support RDMA on VMWare environment. The Sales Connect number...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Federation support for Transient Schema

Federation Support for transient schema that allows the ability to auto-update nickname for add/drop/alter column statements for an existing table without having to recreate the nickname. Perhaps a tunable that allows for enable|disable for use ac...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

nhancement Request - Provide the capability to override user mappings and set WLM group while running the query.

Enhancement Request - Provide the capability to override user mappings and set WLM group while running the query. We would like to request a feature add to bigql which provides the power to override user mappings to Work load in user hands and let...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration