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Command 'db2pd -reorgs index' does not show info about the progress of reorg index with 'cleanup all' or 'reclaim extents'

There is a limitation to show info with db2pd -reorgs index for command like reorg indexes all for table ... allow write access cleanup all reclaim extents. It is possibile to monitor progress of reorg offline and online but not for the above case...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Copy-on-Write for Namespace Separation/Tenants

With the new namespace separation feature in 12.1, you could end up with a lot of duplicate data. If tenants could be created in a copy-on-write or delta aspect it would allow for each tenant to only consume space for the delta, instead of a full ...
4 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Automatic Lock-Escalation from Row- to Extent-Level

Db2 is mainly using row-level locking and tries to avoid lock-escalation to table-level. This behavior is helpful in most of Db2s use cases, but there are some particular situations when locking on a higher level than row would be beneficial. Cons...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Support for NCOS on Db2 transactional (row tables)

Customers ( Like Zebra ) running on cloud (IAAS ) are incurring huge block storage costs. They can partition and move cold data to object storage and still be queryable from SQL engine.
4 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Under review

Generate UUIDs in DB2

Oracle (sorry to compare!) has ability to generate a UID. We are looking for this function in DB2 Zos and LUW. Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) -- In Oracle Oracle sequences are frequently used to provide unique numbers for primary keys where an...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development / Other/Unknown 3 Future consideration

IBM Data Server Runtime Client support on Red Hat OpenShift

We are using Red Hat OpenShift to access "external" Db2 databases. We have a "IBM Data Server Runtime Client" in each container in a OpenShift POD, one or more containers per POD. OpenShift uses overlayFS with overlay2-driver where the the client ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Please add a built-in function for pi

Currently there is no built-in function for pi. It can be calculated using math on trigonometric functions, but this is mildly annoying. Pi is frequently used when working with different random variate distributions and other functions that are in...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Add ability to invalidate single plan without flushing entire package cache

I would like the ability to invalidate/flush access plans and performance data for a specific statement from the package cache. It seems like the EXECUTABLE_ID would allow us to uniquely identify an access plan for this purpose. Flushing the entir...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Delivered

Support Snapshot Isolation Level

Today, when our ETL jobs scan large amounts of data from a table with out using RS/RR isolation levels under certain conditions they see duplicate data and/or missing data. This could be caused due to the fact that rows that were already scanned c...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) should be able to use a DB2 file as input from iseries

Very often a user gets a list of (hundreds or even thousands) similar changes to make. He gets the list of course in excel or text file and needs to type these in a green screen (5250 emulation). In Client acces there was a neat solution for this:...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

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