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Search results: Db2

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display/report size of individual Index (not whole index object)(RIMS)

At present the size of an index is reported only in aggregate for all indexes on a table. It would be ideal to know the actual index size in bytes per individual index;
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

way to make 'COMPRESS YES' the default for all CREATE TABLE/INDEX statements.(RIMS)

Customer would like a means to be able to make 'COMPRESS YES' the default behaviour for CREATE TABLE and CREATE INDEX statements. Since the customer's enterprise-data-warehouse database is used by many vendor applications, it's onerous to modify v...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Security at a granular level(RIMS)

security at a more granular level. Want loadforce, alter not logged initially, refresh, etc without having to grant control, dbadmn. And load at the table level NOT database. High. Lisa Lagrow
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add functionality during database migration to allow existing tablespaces to be reduced automatically(RIMS)

In V9.7, the internal structure of a tablespace has been slightly changed to allow a better way to reduce its space when it is no more needed. This is externalized by a new option in the 'ALTER TABLESPACE' command : 'REDUCE [MAX]' The point is tha...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Added statement text filtering on MON_GET_PKG_CACHE_STMT in DB2 LUW for OPM and OTS tools(RIMS)

MON_GET_PKG_CACHE_STMT CHANGE: Ability to filter out SQL statements (e.g. Cognos-generated reporting SQL statements) before getting Top N SQL statements for OTS Description: OTS needs to perform Top N reporting on some metric in package cache, but...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

REORG TABLE INPLACE does not reclaim space if table compression used(RIMS)

Hi DB2 lab, this customer opened PMR 51051,077,649 to investigate why DB2 was not releasing space from some tables when a reorg table inplace was used. The investigation lead to find out that when a table use compression the free space will not be...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

MQTs with REFRESH IMMEDIATE need to allow more flexible definitions(RIMS)

1. MQTs with REFRESH IMMEDIATE need to allow more flexible definitions. To make MQTs feasible for an environment where quick ingest and low data latency is a priority, they cant be REFRESH DEFERRED because of the excessive locking that occurs du...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Why isn't CLIENT_USERID special register populated correctly by default(RIMS)

The customer was looking to create a table trigger using the CLIENT_USERID special register in order to populate a column that would indicate the actual OS user that last updated or inserted a row in a table. He later found out that this special r...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Hybrid Indexes(RIMS)

I recently inquired with IBM regarding what I am calling hybrid indexes, ie: indexes that reference normal columns as well as nodes within an XML column. This is not currently available, however, in the communications Melanie requested that I pa...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

AI queries: SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE classify( col1) = 'cat'

Idea Collaborate with the Db2 team (and Cloudant?) to support Watson AI (WML, Visual Recognition, NLC) natively in the database. User experience (Just one possible way it could work...) There is already a thing called user-defined functions (UDF...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

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