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Db2

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Asynchronous index rebuild at restart

When an index rebuild is required at the restart time, it can depend on the connection of the first user accessing the table. If the connection is killed, the index rebuild need to redone. It would be smarter to let the rebuild complete even if th...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

support "fixed record length" for load/import with UTF8

Load and import do not support "fixed record length" for MBCS.The field offsets have to be specified in bytes only.There is no possibility to let the data movement tools "think in letters, instead of bytes".
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Use FSCR information to ommit empty data pages while performing Table Scan (TBSCAN)

ABSTRACT:Table scan over volatile table with large number of empty pages scans all empty pages instead of using FSCR to find pages to be scanned. VERSION INFORMATION:DB2 9.7.FP5 on Linux / DB2 9.7.FP9a on AIX 7.1 / DB2 10.5.FP4 on Linux TECHNICAL ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Enable 2-Factor Authentication for Remote DB2 LUW Connections

Provide an option within DB2 LUW to require 2-factor authentication using a password composed of a personal PIN plus a token code, provided by a vendor such as RSA.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Avoidance of deadlock error in DB2 partitioning environment

After our customer delete and create the original table of view table with the partitioning environment, deadlock occurs when they access the view table from each partition at the same time.The view table is invalid when the original table is dele...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

DB2 performance - Hash partition table

On the VLDB - Very Large Database environment.DB2 should support hash partition table to improve performance especially pureScale environment.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

DB2 database kill

A database may hang and must be killed and this is currently only possible with db2_kill
over 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server Driver Package Trace requires Local Admin Right

Can you please do an enhancement so that IBM Data Server Driver Package does not require a Local Admin Access to take the trace, just like DB2 Connect before?This is such a pain to have the Local Admin access granted these days. JPMorgan Chase and...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Backup and Log Archive into private Clouds ownCloud/Nextcloud

Backup and Log Archive into a Cloud Storage
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Like DB2_LOAD_COPY_NO_OVERRIDE a registry to overrides NONRECOVERABLE Load operations is required.

Like DB2_LOAD_COPY_NO_OVERRIDE a registry is required which overrides NONRECOVERABLE Load operations to a defined value, because for data center operations any Load operation is critical.DB2_LOAD_NONRECOVERABLE_OVERRIDE=COPY YES USE TSM and DB2_LO...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration