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Search results: Db2

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db2move copy option for partitioned tablespaces

Please implement tablespace map for db2move copy option for partitioned tables, the above pmr has more details on the issue. db2move accepts a tablespace map, but if the souce database has a partitioned table it just fails with a syntax error when...
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 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

R2PRO00006892 - include a matching timestamp for a given activity record in all the tables

Farmers currently retains 4+1 rolling months of WLM activity data involving the following WLM tables, and we would like to add a 'date' column having a default valude current timestamp in these 3 tables: - ACTIVITY_DB2ACTIVITIES_V97 - ACTIVITYMETR...
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Support XA transactions on column-organized tables

We have a main DW database on DB2 for z/OS and a Datamart on DB2 for LUW. Some tables on both z/OS and LUW are populated using Cobol programs which are submitted from the mainframe. We want to convert the Datamart on DB2 LUW to BLU, but the Cobol ...
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

predicates blocked when temp table involved in federated joins

Unacceptable slowness and/or timeout for affected SQL due to predicate blocking resulting in fetching all data from backend
about 11 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 1 Not under consideration

[Copy] Support mixed row/column environments without requiring CUR_COMMIT=ON

We have recently run into a problem when we enable Cur_commit because of the locking behavior expected by some applications (they expect blocking). Therefore, we have to disable CC, but then that app cannot use blu. We want to give our plant the a...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Online ALTER TABLE ability to rename column; change nullability; drop col.; etc.(RIMS)

Customer wants ALTER TABLE to be more robust. Specifically, the ability to rename a table's column, drop a column, change nullibility and other unsupported attributes. � To accomplish this now the table must be recreated and repopulated, which i...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DPF IXF Format(RIMS)

On DPF only, you can't Load a multi-partition table from an exported file with an IXF format. We've run into this a couple of times when we had to save off data before dropping/recreating a table. I can understand that there may be something in th...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Online Table move RI(RIMS)

We'd like to submit the following requirements for the online table move utility based on 9.7 beta testing. 1. Support of moving tables that have RI on them. Rob Lemeiux
over 10 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

Online Table Move COPY YES(RIMS)

2. Support for doing a backup (preferably tablespace level) as part of the MOVE process when using the COPY_USE_LOAD option. This would make the online table move process recoverable when using the db2 load api. This would be similar to a LOAD com...
over 10 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered