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Db2

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Incremental Runstats (modify existing statistics based on delta from previous statistics).(RIMS)

Customer requests an incremental runstats support. Specifically the ability for runstats to modify existing statistics based on the new data that came in or was modified after the previous runstats was invoked.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

BACKUP Performance: Incremental and Delta backups should not have to read all tablespace pages.(RIMS)

Backup currently reads ALL pages in the tablespace to examine the pageLSN in order to determine if a page should be included in the image. This is poor for performance, customer want this addressed using a 21th century approach.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Deploy new/unused packages without causing performace impacts

With current DB2(V11.1 FP2, FP4), Deploying a new or an unused packages causing variation and catalog locks impacting performance. HOLDHDL WAITHDL HOLDER WAITER HOLDMODE OBJTYPE TABNAME SCHEMA SECS STMTTEXT ---------- ------- ---------- ----...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Generate SW ID Tag for Trial Installs

Activating a license with db2licm generates a SW ID Tag, which can then be recognized by an ILMT software scan for license reporting.Currently a trial edition is not generating a SW ID Tag, so they cannot be discovered by LMT.As it is important fo...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Allow better monitoring of DB2 Thread/Connection types

Currently there are various ZPARMs to "control" thread management (CTHREAD,MAXDBAT,CONDBAT,IDFORE,IDBACK,etc). These ZPARMS are upper bound limits of the number of each type of thread/connection that DB2 is configured with. There is very little in...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to detect changes in data (similar to QSYS2.DISPLAY_JOURNAL)

When supporting a production environment, one needs to detect the sequence of updates, including before and after image. On IBMi, we use extensively the functionality to consult the journal entries (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/qsys2displayjo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

ISO/IEC 9075:2016-2, T612: Add ability to declare window frame that can be shared between window functions

When you need to use the same window frame for several window functions, T612 can simplify the query. Example from code of advent, day 1: select id, case when count(1) over w = 3 then sum(depth) over w end depth from day1.input window w as (order ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Future consideration

Read access during offline backup

Read access during offline backup
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Add possibility to create dashboards over several databases

I would really to be able to create a dashboard, containing the activity response time of my top-10 databases. Or to be able to look at the graphs of some databases in 1 glance.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Multi Temperature Storage support for pureScale

Alter tablespace using STOGROP is not currently supported in a pureScale environement. The request is relieving this restriction.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

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