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The Q-Replication apply programm shall be able to call the Db2 High Performance Unload (HPU) utility by the HPU stored procedure

Hello, in enterprise warehouse and OLTP areas of DB2 installations exist often very big databases with several tera bytes (often 100 of TBs) of data. For example we have several OLTP databases with more than 20TB and tables with billion of records...
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Q-Replication Apply program shall be able to recognize if a column-organized table contains already a dictionary

Hello, the current implementation of the Q-Replication apply program for an automatic LOAD operation on column-organized target tables does not recognize if a dictionary already exist. A column compression dictionary is used to compress data in...
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Adding of a new apply parameter DBLOAD_OPTIONS in order to influence an automatic load performed by the Q-Replication apply program on column-organized tables.

A column compression dictionary is used to compress data in a column of a column-organized table. When you load data into a column-organized table, the first phase is the analyze phase, which is unique to column-organized tables.The analyze phase ...

Support ODP-Extraction of ABAP CDS-View with SAP Pack

Support ODP-Extraction of ABAP CDS-View with SAP Pack Delta Extract Stage. This is necessary to support the delta-extraction mode of CDS Views for extraction of data from SAP System for tables that does not support delta extraction via ODP - SAP o...
about 1 year ago in Information Server 0 Submitted

Different Column Names for Union Query

IBM Db2 z/OS development team to allow different column names in different parts of a UNION clause, as long as their types match, and assign the column names from the first part of the UNION clause to the columns of resulting table
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Delivered

Expanding limit of Maximum number of columns in a table - Db2

Hi, In Db2, currently we have the limit of 1012 as maximum number of columns in a table, We would request you to exapand this limit. thank you! Regards, Sankar
almost 7 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

IDAA AOT support

We have data stage jobs (parallel) jobs, and applications that use Business Objects, that would like to utilize AOTs,Currently, AOTs are qualified by a schema name and a table name. This effectively prevents us deploying AOTs in data stage as the ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhance db2move to use remote LOAD from CLIENT

For migration of on premise Db2 database to a cloud service, the usability of db2move would help a lot.For now you have to use manual LOAD commands to load data for each single table to the Db2 on cloud service.db2move can be used from the on prem...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Details for User Creation Date

Auditors asking about the User Creation date. Have checked the xuser table but it is reflecting the last changed date (eg. change of password) rather than creation.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Allow non-intrusive RENAME of Constraint Names

Allow for a non-intrusive RENAME of any type of CONSTRAINT name. Primary Key, Foreign Key, CHECK and UNIQUE Constraint names should be available for RENAME. Currently, changing Constraint names requires the Constraint to be dropped and re-created ...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration