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Search results: Db2

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Update an Oracle table thru Fed Server

Since we have chinese characters in db2, we need to have default sorting by pinyin. Therefore, we can only add Collating sequence (CLDR181_LZH) when creating the db. However, when we use Federation Server which connect to Oracle, I can't use strin...
over 10 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

lock table partition in xxx mode

In batch jobs, to avoid lock escalation, customer needs to lock a table partition in exclusive mode, and run dml against this partition.
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Profiling for athorities and privileges

Often application owners/developers do not exactly know which authorities (like LOAD) and privileges (like read on syscat tables) are needed on a database for the application workload. It would be helpful to have a method to capture the privileges...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Allow blu and row tables to be mixed when using shadow tables

Allow blu and row tables to be mixed when using shadow tables.
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

SQL0659N message should identify object and limit reached(RIMS)

'SQL0659N Maximum size of a table reached' In above message SQL0659N the customer would like the object identified with it's name or Object ID and Tablespace ID as well a what was the limit reached (64GB, 256GB...). This is in order to identify th...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DB2LOOK  improve dependency order for MQTs/UDFs(RIMS)

DB2LOOK  improve dependency order for MQTs/UDFs DB2LOOK does not currently generate view/MQT/UDF in proper dependency order. We have MQTs dependent on views dependent on other MQTs, and DB2LOOK generates all tables (including MQTs) before it gene...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Db2look allow a parameter to only pull specific tablepaces; by name (-l tspace)(RIMS)

Db2look  allow a parameter to only pull specific tablepaces, by name (-l tspace). And add a parameter to include the tablespace(s) when listing a schema or specific table. So either l when used with t or z or z/-t would ONLY bring back the ta...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Indexes (for same table) into separate objects(RIMS)

Customer would like to have indexes (for the same table) stored into separate objects. This would provide the ability to rebuild/reorg/manage a single index, which can help shorten the duration of these maintenance operation and also reduce the ac...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Reorg/Delete(RIMS)

On Z/os they have the capability of deleting records via a select statement at the same time as performing a reorg. This is incredibly useful as the logging is eliminated and of course all the benefits of a reorg Here are some examples. Heres an...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

In-memory metrics support for (container map reorg stats)(RIMS)

Customer would like to move away from Snapshot monitoring (they hit issues recently where Snapshot latches were holding up other work on the system) but cannot because some information is not yet available via in-memory metrics table functions. Cu...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration