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Search results: Db2

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Enable 'db2move' to change definitions during COPY SCHEMA

Using a list of schemas with db2move COPY schema function allows to copy a database content including function and procedure definitions from one database to another,And in the default mode "DDL_AND_LOAD", it copies definitions and loads data usin...
about 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add the ability to control db2sqljcustomize behavior on untyped host variables and prevent silent data type conversion

We modernize a banking database application originally written in COBOL by migrating the functionality into a new written Java application. During this application migration we noticed that there is an issue with unexpected/unwanted data type con...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

DMC stats event monitoring needs to consider built-in wlm_collect_int

DMC WLM Statistics collection is completely independent of wlm_connect_int built-in functionality. This behavior is not ideal, as the database could have been configured for that already, and the final result is that you end up with 2 independent ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Provide the option to exclude SELECT statements from db2audit when collecting DML data

The painful and expensive IBM recommended workaround that ended up not being feasible was to create event monitors (multiple so that records can be cleared) with WLM. However, the volume and format of output generated by the event monitors is diss...
about 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Rollforward should proactively determine if END OF LOGS will not be able to be reached

In a partitioned database environment, if there is some log file from a database partition that is missing, the database can only be recovered to a point in time where the log files from all database partitions are available. If only the log files...
11 months ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

DBCFG and DB_GET_CFG to filter updatable parameters only

To mimic the full database configuration, and not only the performance related parms, that db2look would generate update statements for, it would be good to have DBCFG admin view and/or DB_GET_CFG table function to allow selection of the updatable...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add Smartcard certificate support for ibm_db (Python) client driver

Python is the most popular language in the area of data science and widely used in combination with Db2 - especially in environments with IAS accelerators. At the same time, many large and/or security-concious environments in general no longer acc...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

Support LOB data types for DB2 BLU

DB2 BLU still doesn't support LOB related data types. Some existing databases in DB2 or other RDBMS, such as Oracle, need to be migrated to DB2 BLU and contain some tables with LOB data types. Without LOB data types support for DB2 BLU, they have ...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 0 Delivered

Support log switch under SET WRITE SUSPEND EXCLUDE LOGS

Today Db2 cannot switch to a log file while write suspend. Therefore a archive log gets performed at beginning of write suspend. Then the write suspend can only last and the database can only work until 1 log file gets full. The time a database is...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Need easy to use backup/restore solution for text search indexes

Rollforward recovery, PIT recovery with text search indexes is a manual and error prone process. It often means recreating the text indexes to match the data in the tables. This is extremely time consuming.The Db2 for z/OS solution for text indexe...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Planned for future release