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Db2

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DB2 to add support for alter table without going on need for reorg immediately and allow full access (read,write,alter...etc)

After setting compatibility vector to ORA, we expect alter table to not affect read/write access. In our test, we see that after dropping even a single column, table goes in reorg_pending = Y status and we can not use reorg inplace to continue ins...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Do not truncate trailing blanks in columnar Group By

BLU columnar engine does not carry trailing blanks in varchar columns during GROUP BY processing. It does not bring non-normalized variant through the grouping operation
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Ability to recover an individual table

We need the ability to recover an individual table faster. HPU does not work weel on VLDB databases as it does not support pipes and there is no indexing of tables within a TS in a backup image.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Change Table space page size during Redirected Restore

Hi,I kindly request for having the ability to change the table space page size during a redirected restore operation.Thanks
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Improve performance of DB2 BLU SQL with the GROUP BY subquery

Our customer newly built the DWH system using DB2 BLU.But certain SQL's performance is extremely bad.Problem SQLs are with the GROUP BY subquery and the SET clause subselect.STSC says it‘s a matter of architecture, not a problem and they offered...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Planned for future release

Alert user about abnormal tablespaces on standby

In a HADR configuration typically customers use db2pd -hadr on the standby to monitor the state. On the standby if there is a problem with one of the tablespaces it'll be marked invalid and future log records against the tablespace will be skipped...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

DB2 RCAC Masking usage enhancement

This is urgent request to enhance RCAC masking rule. We are using it on several systems but due to below limitation or bug we have to use static hardcoded values in the masking rule, which is lot of manual process and impose security risk. This fe...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Stop requiring Db2 to be run in a --privileged container

Using the ibmcom_db2 docker image, even when adding a license to it, or installing licensed Db2 to a container based on a supported O/S requires running in a docker container with the --privileged switch. This is not a good practice and cannot be ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

Event monitor creation, write to table option should allow to specify a tabkespace into which ALL the new tables should be created in

Create event monitor write to table option will create new tables.All the new tables are defined in a tablespace which db2 chooses. I want an option to specify a tablesapce name, in which ALL the new tables should get created in.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

db2stop re-confirmation command option

This is an enhancement request to incorporate a reconfirmation message before stopping a Db2 instance in standalone, HADR or in pureScale environments. The reason for the ask is to avoid DBA's or users typing db2stop instead of db2top by mistake. ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration