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Search results: Db2

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Allow unencrypted password in an SSL conversation

This is a request to align the behavior of DB2 LUW with that of IBM i and DB2 for z/OS when connecting with a DRDA client. With the other 2 platforms, if DRDA is configured to require user/password to be sent encrypted with minimum encryption leve...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Allow table compression to be disabled for DGTTs and CGTTs

In short: OLTP applications frequently encounter performance issues because DB2 enables table compression by default for all DGTTs / CGTTs. Details from a real-time example: When inserting 40K rows to a DGTT, it takes 2 seconds. When we immediatel...
about 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Long term metrics for identifying trends

The ability to look at average cpu, max(database size), max connections collected at the daily interval (or online day verses off line day). Allows for easy identification of change whether business driven or application deployment driven. Typical...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Incremental Runstats (modify existing statistics based on delta from previous statistics).(RIMS)

Customer requests an incremental runstats support. Specifically the ability for runstats to modify existing statistics based on the new data that came in or was modified after the previous runstats was invoked.
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add a value to TYPE column of SYSPACKAGE to indicate that Package is IDAA Enabled

I’m surprised that there is no reference in SYSIBM.SYSPACKAGE, I’m sure there is a lot of customer code out there that generates BIND Cards and would not think to look in SYSACCEL.SYSACCELERATEDPACKAGES, to determine BIND options. Separating th...
over 5 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Visual Studio Add-Ins - Server Explorer - Data Connections - Equivalent Functionality to IBM Data Studio

Our shop is primarily .NET development and our application developers do much of the creation and management of database objects on DB2 z/OS (and soon Db2 - fka LUW). The VSAI Server Explorer feature is lacking much of the functionality of IBM Dat...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

BLU should tolerate Tools and Applications which are currently not BLU-aware

We currently employ with the introduction of db2 v10.5 BLU for our DWH. Our plan is to store almost all data in columns store. Just in exceptional cases tables should be stored row oriented. That's why we have set the registry variable DB2_WORKLOA...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Federation JDBC Wrappre to Cassandra support

Officially support and optimize performance from Federation (Db2 Linux/Unix/Windows) server to Cassandra database Improve data type mappings between Cassandra and Db2. Accessing Cassndra via Federation JDBC wrapper using Cassandra driver from www....
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

DB2 User Defined Function(UDF) on zSeries to convert relational data from existing DB2 tables to JSON

I am looking for something similar in Mainframe described to the following URL which is available in DB2 for iSeries and not currently available on zOS DB2. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/sqlp/rbafyjsonpublishing.htm I th...
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DB2 BLU non-unicode database support for non-identity collation sequence

We currently run on DB2 LUW 10.5.0.6 where our database is created using DB2 API with c-program.The major reason to do this is to support collating sequence similar to EBCDIC as DB2 z/OS is the source of our data.This makes the Database collating ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration