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Table-Level QMAP Properties for Automated Q Replication Management

In modern, automated database environments, schema changes and table deployments are often managed via CI/CD pipelines using metadata or declarative configuration. Currently, registering and deregistering tables with the correct source and target ...
5 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability 0 Under review

Support for CREATE INDEX DEFER YES DEFINE NO would be very usefull for Spaces with a 'high' number of partitions to avoid timeouts on SYSTSTAB.

When using "CREATE INDEX DEFER YES DEFINE NO", "DEFINE NO" is ignored with SQLCODE 20122 and the VSAM Clusters are created anyway. Doing this for a partitioned index on a partitioned table with lots of partitions (400+) the runtime of CREATE INDEX...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Indicate the last time a table was used with a query in IDAA to allow for smarter table management

Provide the ability to keep track of tables used by queries executing on IDAA. Keeping track of a access count and latest timestamp and exposing this as part of one of the stored procedure calls either on ACCEL_GET_TABLES_DETAILS, ACCEL_GET_TABLES...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Delivered

BLU CDE Online REORG

Currently BLU CDE tables only have the RECLAIM EXTENTS option of REORG enabled. This does not physically move rows and therefore REORG cannot reclaim extents unless 100% of the rows in an extent have been deleted (via deletes or BLU updates). Also...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 5 Future consideration

Reorg un

Title: Enable REORG to materialize column order changes safely Product/Component: Db2 for z/OS → Utilities → REORG Problem: Adding a column inserts at end; achieving a “middle” position requires unload/rebuild of large PBR/PBG tables, causing risk...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

DB2 LUW: Intra-tablespace parallelism

Db2 V9.7 FP2: Intra-tablespace parallelism can reduce elapsed time for backups Starting in Version 9.7 Fix Pack 2, intra-tablespace parallelism was introduced and can be used during backups other than delta and incremental backups. Intra-tablespac...
over 8 years ago in Db2 3 Delivered

PAW: User friendly Multiple Selection for Header Dimensions including Calculation options

The process of selecting some elements from a header dimension, including the possibility to select the calculation mode for these elements (min, max, sum, average, …), in diagrams as well as in tables, is not too user-friendly. Current workaround...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 8 Delivered

Full EXPLAIN support for all types of trigger

With Triggers you cannot use the REBIND option OWNER on a rebind. Why not? Not even for EXPLAIN(ONLY). We must get the ability, like with "normal" packages, to EXPLAIN into another set of EXPLAIN tables. Further, if you are using Advanced Triggers...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Delivered

Enable Accurate and Comprehensive Lineage Visualization for complex SQL dependencies ( Support for Complete Lineage Including indirect Data source in the Lineage Graph )

We have observed that the lineage graph is not displaying correctly in certain scenarios. Specifically for some views that are created using SELECT * from multiple source table, the lineage graph is incomplete. For example, We have a view that is ...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Planned for future release

Optimizer does not use HIGH2KEY/LOW2KEY for columns with COLCARD 1

Optimization issue if a business_time_oriented table has only one row. In syscat.columns the content of the business_time columns are detected (high2key, low2key) but the value can not be found in the distribution statistics. This leads default fi...
over 2 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration