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Search results: Db2

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Ability to backup/clone a database across the network (redirected restore)(RIMS)

Verizon needs the capability to issue a set write suspend IO command on database. Get the data to another instance at another location and bring it up. Informix has this ability and Verizon likes it. This is called a redirected restore. Verizon's ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

BACKUP/RESTORE should support parallelcompression of backupstripes when using native compress option(RIMS)

Headline Cont...(thisiscurrentlysingle-threadpertablespace).Description -currently, Backup will fetch from multiple tablespaces using multiple concurrent prefetcher sub-agents. However when Backup Compression is enabled, data is forced through Bac...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration
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'db2 "ALTER TABLESPACE DATA1_TS no file system caching" on ECKD DASD

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We are trying to 'db2 "ALTER TABLESPACE DATA1_TS no file system caching"' on DB2 LUW 10.5 on RHEL 6.5 on z/VM 6.3 using ECKD DASD for the DB2 data store. When issuing the above command we get: SQL1723N The CREATE TABLESPACE statement or ALTER TABL...
over 10 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

Aggregate activity monitor

Add a table to the activity monitor for aggregating the data by statement text or section
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Performance improvement of using global variables with large elements in SQL PL

System : Internet banking for wholesale Required enhancement : Need to improve performance of using global variable with large array in SQL PL procedure. When Global Variable with large array is used in SQL PL, there currently is significant perfo...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Allow exclusion of columns from row compression to reduce overflows on updates

We have many large tables in our data warehouse that hold historized data records. There are four date columns:- begin of visibility based on processing time (BAT_BEGIN)- end of visibility based on processing time (BAT_END)- begin of visibility ba...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Regulation of the transport objects by data source per pureScale cluster within the JVM.

This requirement was raised in the old IBM requirement system in 2011. The requirement id was R2PRO00006740. The connection from JVM(WebSphere) connection pool- JCC driver - Global transport pool into the agent of UDB pure scale. The requirement i...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

Database sharding

The customer is considering to deploy multi-active system cross multiple sites, the distance among sites might be more than 1000km. The data could be distributed by hash, and rarely cross site data access by transaction/query. DPF might be a good ...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Automate life cycle management of data

For the most OLTP system, some table only keep data for a period of time. We are looking for support to automate the management of this by DB2, ie. auto-prune older data.
almost 11 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Restore only data

It should be allowed to restore only the data of a table if the data and indexes of a table are stored in different tablespaces.
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration