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Changing partitioning key columns

Most of our tables that are created before DB2 V8 (and even some created later than that) uses the primary key as the partitioning key. The resulting partitioning key therefore consists of many columns, but the significant columns for partitioning...
about 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Increase the number of ALTER TABLE operations that can be performed online without placing the table in "reorg pending" state

There are a few operations that seem to place the table into "reorg pending" state immediately when it should be possible to treat them as REORG-recommended. For example, any ALTER COLUMN .. DROP COLUMN statement that doesn't affect indexes should...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Reduce restrictions of ADD PARTITION

“ALTER TABLE ADD PARTITION” is not available when target table holds uncommitted(not materialized) definition change. In most cases “MAXVALUE” is selected as limit key value because Partitioned-Table of TABLE-CONTROL cannot hold data exceeded the ...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Improve the flexibility of changing PARTITION key

When to change PARITITION keys in multiple PARTITIOIN, a validation routine to check the data consistency runs every time ALTER command (ALTER TABLE ALTER PARTITION) is executed. In most cases we change the key value for multiple PARTITION keys an...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Preventing DBD Lock when changing PARTITION key

There’s a possibility that status becomes AREOR when PARTITION key in PBR is changed by “ALTER TABLE ALTER PARTITION”. We strongly request you to revise the function NOT to set DBD Lock at this moment. It’s hard to say that changing PARTITION key ...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Prevent immediate reflection of PARTITION key changes

When changing partition key of PBR using ALTER TABLE ALTER PARTITION, it may take effect immediately without AREOR status under certain conditions, so please provide an option to allow PARTITION key changes to be reflected in the AREOR state upon ...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Lookup tables history tracking

Add a functionality similar to Audit History on catalogs to lookup tables. On lookup tables there is currently no way to track changes so any object that requires any history tracking needs to be defined as a catalog. This is many times unnecessar...
5 months ago in Product Master 0 Under review

Only in-memory Temp table

Temporary table only cached in the memory, it does not to write into the temp dbspace.Requirement from China mobile (CMCC), CMCC use lots of temp table in the following 2 ways:Create temp table ... with no log; select * from tab into temp tabname ...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

BACKUP command option: ALL TABLESPACES EXCEPT (tablespace-name)

Customer has a huge number of tablespaces (f.e. 10000) and wants to do a tablespace backup of all tablespaces except of for example 3 tablespaces. We would like to do the following: $ db2 BACKUP DB myDB ALL TABLESPACES EXCEPT (unnecessary_tab...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration
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ALLOW Database DBADM to DROP VIEW

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Our application development team have the authority to manage application databases in our non-production environments. Using Database DBADM authority they are able to do pretty much everything EXCEPT for DROP VIEW. We need to do this for them (us...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

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