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Search results: Db2

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DMC Notification Center resolution handling

We sometimes have over 1,000 warnings on a server (image 001) and the Notification Center does not handle the volume well. We can only display up to 30 alerts on a page and we can only CLOSE, DELETE or EMAIL them (image 002). We would love to have...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review

Create User Temporary Tables in round robin

Assuming that there is more than one temp tablespace with the same page size and 'IN TABLESPACE' clause is not specified in the DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE command, then DB2 optimizer should allocate the temp tables across all temporary tablesp...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under 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

Limit the 'list of tables' to display when using Ranger authorization

We need to limit the list of tables to display to non authorized users when Ranger policy are enabled. We followed the steps described in this article, but it doasn't work when using Ranger to manage users authorizations: https://www.ibm.com/suppo...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

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

STATUS_CHANGE_TIME Colum doesnt exist in in mon_get views

We are currently working to migrate all our SNAP views to MON_GET views/Functions as SNAP views caused a response spike in our PROD environment recently.We are using STATUS_CHANGE_TIME columns of sysibmadm.applications to check lock waits on the d...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Preserve table creation timestamp after reorg-finsished using admin_move_table procedure (online table move)

Following Knowledge Center, https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPGG_10.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.perf.doc/doc/c0024850.htmlwe perform table reorg using admin_move_table . The issue is, after run admin_move_table command, the original...
about 7 years ago in Db2 1 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

Real global CGTT (not SESSION local)

SAP BW needs to materialize data into persistent (regular) tables to be able to access it from multiple session (connections). CGTT and DGTT in Db2 cannot be accessed from multiple sessions/connections. Therefore those temp tables that don't requi...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Reduce size of LOAD COPY dataset for tables with LOBs and XML

A LOAD COPY where the table being acted on has one or more LOB columns is much larger than the original data / final table size / post load backup. From investigation it is based on the pagesize and extentsize of the underlying tablespace. This pr...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration