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Db2 TOTAL_CPU_TIME monitoring metric on AIX should reflect "wall" CPU time and not use PURR-scaled time reported currently by thread_cputime AIX API

Db2 monitoring interfaces report "CPU time" metric (TOTAL_CPU_TIME), which accounts the time that given activity/request (and all higher level aggregated interfaces) spent actively "on CPU" whilst executing the query. On AIX this information is ob...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Add new STATUS codes to SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE to reflect different states of the tablespace

This would provide the requestor who wants to do a one stop shopping when looking for a state such as Advisory Reorg of all the tablespaces in that state.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Number of Occurrences for Alert

Alerts need to have the option to set a consecutive number of ocurrences for a check before it alerts. This is an option present in other monitoring tools and prevents a lot of false alerts. Example being number of connections, we have an threshol...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Enhance Data Management Console monitoring for Db2 PureScale system

This item aims to provide a more reliable monitoring function specifically for Db2 PureScale system. Currently DMC can monitor Db2 PureScale system, but treat each member as a separate connection. Some of the monitoring metrics are confusing, not ...
7 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

DB2HOST variable needed for PureScale to redirect and define IP to participating subnet's

In Db2 PureScale GDPC the Db2 cluster is distributed on 2 different physical locations and a Quorum Host (tie breaker node) on a 3rd location.The general Db2 install routines use the 'system hostname' (gethostbyname) for the ongoing install proced...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

Show altered Sequence value in Db2 Catalog

Currently the next value of a sequence can not be easily retrieved from the catalog after a ALTER SEQUENCE command (without retrieving it and increasing it at the same time). Especially when moving from one environment to another it is important t...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Provide a way to refresh db/node directory cache to an active instance

When an instance is active, it reads the db directory and node directory information and the instance keeps it in a cache. This catalog is used for federation, to connect to remote databases. If for some reason, it is necessary to modify the direc...
over 5 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

adjust card estimates on predicates using both COL = '?' and COL > <value> similar to accounting for NUMNULLS

Component: DB2 optimizer When a column is NULLable, a predicate COL = ? will account for numnulls to estimate cardinality. The problem comes when column is NOT NULL, and "the NULL value" is a real value. Peoplesoft has been designed to use a major...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Let a change of a SYS*_GROUP in the dbm cfg be reflected in the db2audit secmaint.del-file next to/instead of in db2diag.log

For security monitoring purposes every 30 minutes our production db2audit-files are archived, extracted and uploaded to a special security server for analysis purposes. However very important information is missing: when changing a SYS*_GROUP, the...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enahnce db2pd -dbptnmem command for clarity

In command db2pd -dbptnmem result Real Memory on the system is not displayed, and Memory Limit is meant to represent Instance Memory. Please enhance the command as follows for clarity: 1 - the Real Memory on the system should also be displayed in ...
about 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration