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Search results: Db2

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Add support for passing rowchangetimestampoverride filetype modifiers to admin_move_table(RIMS)

My customer, Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, makes extensive use of the admin_move_table utility and uses the rowchangetimetamp feature on columns in several thousand large tables with thousand millions of rows. These rowchangetimestamp will be used f...
over 10 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

Defaut DATA BUFFER value in LOAD.

Wells Fargo requested if it possible to come up with a lower default value for DATA BUFFER without specifying DATA BUFFER in the load command. For example a registry variable like LOAD_DEFAULT_DATA_BUFFER=1000 that would take effect whenever the l...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Limitation on Visibility of the Schemas on DB2 Warehouse On cloud console

For all the user on DB2 warehouse on cloud, we want to restrict the visibility of the schemas for which they don't have access to. Which means the users should only see those schemas on which they are Read/ write access and nothing else. Please le...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration
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Flashback support

Merged
The table might be dropped wrongly or some important data could be deleted. We hope to recover it very quickly. Currently we have to use database backup image or recovery expert to do it, but it's hard to use and need to much time to recover.
almost 11 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Partitioned Indices Order Preservation and Performance

GTECH is in the lottery and gaming business. They use DB2 as a competitive advantage in their offering. They are an IBM SW Reseller. They are always looking at new ways to leverage DB2, DB2 Blu, DB2 Merge/Backup,IBM Replication IIDR, to gain compe...
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server .Net Provider Support For Informix Types TEXT, BYTE and BOOLEAN

We are in the process of moving from .Net Framework to .Net Core. We currently use the Informix Client SDK ADO.Net drivers to access Informix databases using ADO.Net. When we tried to migrate to the IBM Data Server Driver (IBM.Data.DB2.dll) we fou...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Federation for XML data type

Description Federation queries (select statements) against an Oracle server are failing if the Oracle table has an XMLTYPE column. Even a select count(*) against these tables fails. Tables in the same Oracle server that do NOT have XMLTYPE colum...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Ability to append to a file when performing an export

When exporting data to files, every export should be in a different file. And it the business requirement is to have all data in the same file, then it is necessary to do that manually with something external to db2.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Db2 WLM to enable it to prioritize access to physical I/O

We have a Db2 AESE 11.1 fp4a mixed use (but no column tables) data warehouse on an AIX 7.2 LPAR that is limited to 75K IOPS by NetApp. When the threshold is met, high priority OLTP queries submitted by our 1000 retail store POS systems can hang in...
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

pureScale support HADR multiple standbys

It is a current limitation that in pureScale HADR can only support one standby. It is a requirement to be able to support more than one standbys, typically with one of the standby in the same data centre as the primary, and another standby in a re...
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration