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Search results: Db2

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External Table USING Options

Need to be able to create external table objects using all the "USING" options when writing to the file. The best example is that (VAR)CHAR type objects need to be written with "quoted" values (e.g., 'ABC",'DEF' written to the file instead of ABC,...
9 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

LISTDEF (like) utility

This is required so that the ability to perform various utilities (e.g., REORG) on multiple objects (tablespaces and/or tables) can be performed utilizing a list of objects.
9 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

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

Create a "RUNSTATS Check" report similar to the REORGCHK

Although there is an Automated RUNSTATS, some people prefer to execute RUNSTATS manually. Having some ability to run a report that "Recommends" that a table should have a RUNSTATS performed would assist in making decisions. with thousands of table...
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

NCOS support for GCP

None of the Google Cloud's object storage is supported for customers to move cold data onto a partitioned table. That makes hosting a db2warehouse on Google Cloud very expensive and cost prohibitive. Need native support for GCP
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Future 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.
5 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Under review
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Provide an external interface to check for manual runstats statistics collection

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DB2 currently provides AUTOMATIC STATISTICS COLLECTION as part of automated table maintaince which uses an internal evaluation algorithm to determine the necessity to perform a (then automated) RUNSTATs collection. We are asking for an external me...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

DB2 LUW Allow Online (Mostly) Index Creation

Hello IBM, Currently whenever we create an index on a table we see significant number of lock timeouts for the applications. We are running a pureScale cluster and not able to create Indexes ONLINE. Pain points: We use DB2 LUW pureScale as a...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 3 Not under consideration

Trigger support for BLU tables

Trigger support is part of many replication technologies e.g.- ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE- trigger based Qrep- SAP zero downtime upgrade
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

index based restore of a table space from backup image file

Want to restore the contents of a tablespace from a backup.
about 5 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration