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Search results: Db2

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Fix "ZRC=0x870F003E=-2029060034=SQLO_QUE_BAD_HANDLE "Bad Queue Handle" - when db2 utility output is piped

This error has been reported since 2014 and still not fixed as of DB2 LUW CSB build level 2503051558 (March 2025 release). You have updated DT236621 as recently as February 2025 and claim this is resolved; but we are at the March 2025 release and ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 3 Under review

BLU CDE Online REORG

Currently BLU CDE tables only have the RECLAIM EXTENTS option of REORG enabled. This does not physically move rows and therefore REORG cannot reclaim extents unless 100% of the rows in an extent have been deleted (via deletes or BLU updates). Also...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 5 Future consideration

DB2 LUW: Intra-tablespace parallelism

Db2 V9.7 FP2: Intra-tablespace parallelism can reduce elapsed time for backups Starting in Version 9.7 Fix Pack 2, intra-tablespace parallelism was introduced and can be used during backups other than delta and incremental backups. Intra-tablespac...
about 8 years ago in Db2 3 Delivered

STMM Monitoring

With the memory statistics similar to the ‘db2pd -dbptnmem’ output within the STMM logs, it would be possible to get memory usage report over time from Db2 perspective without any permanent monitoring tool (as long as STMM is used/active). It woul...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Performance enhancement for admintabinfo

For example, the customer wants to get the name list for tables which are in load pending status, he may issue a SQL statement "select tabschema,tabname from sysibmadm.admintabinfo where load_status='PENDING'", the statement will execute for a ver...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 2 Under review

Reads on Standby on DB2 BLU

Customer would like Reads on Standby when using HADR for Column-organized tables (BLU) . This way customer can split specifics workload between Primary and Standby. It's an old DB2_HADR_ROS restriction that should already be "fixed" in newer DB2 r...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

A DB cfg parameter to set the default tablespace to prevent objects ending up in the wrong TS

When not explicitly set in the CREATE TABLE statement, a newly created table will end up in the last created tablespace. A lot of customers have problems with this for several reasons. They have no control over table placement when using a framewo...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Image COPY utility

Need an image COPY utility so that individual tables and/or tablespaces can be backed up. This is required so that an object can be restored to the COPY that was taken without bringing HADR down.
9 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

Automatic migration of EXPLAIN tables in db2 LUW

Dear Team, We have seen whenever we migrate to higher version of db2 luw, the explain tables are not automatically migrated. We need to manually drop and recreate the explain tables to avoid errors like SQL0206N, SQL0220N, SQL1184N. As db2 modific...
over 1 year ago in Db2 1 Submitted

The request is to add Keyed cryptographic hashing on Card details in HDFC Bank Project

Currently some of the Db2 tables which contains CARD details are using hash function for cryptographic purposes. As per updated security policy of HDFC Bank, hashing is not sufficient and we need to do Keyed cryptographic hashing.
2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 2 Under review