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Search results: Db2

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Restore Diagnostic messages

When upgrading DB2 LUW from V10.5 to V11.5, restore got hung after processing 830G [ full backup data ] without any message DB2 Support team was contacted to troubleshoot the issue, finally, it appeared to be an file lock issue, DB2 appeared to be...
about 4 years ago in Db2 5 Not under consideration

Dependency on systemd added in DB2 11.1.1.1 prevents installation in RHEL 7.3 docker container

Idea created for the RFE closed wrongly - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=103478 21 vote(s) as of Mar 13, 2019 We use Docker containers to perform automated testing of our products on various prerequisite s...
over 6 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

DB2 Connect EF Core support in Azure Function with WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE enabled

when running in azure functions it is severely recommended you have WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE enabled as this makes your runtime code secure. however we found via support case with IBM that the license directory must ALWAYS be writable and there is...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Avoiding 0C7 on UNLOAD from FIC when structure has changed

Hi all, To explain what the idea I'm going to explain the "issue" In a project, we add to drop a column from a table. To do that on multiple environment we use automation tool. The tool drop/create the object without unloading data. So to correct ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Echo predicate functinality for sub queries

Issue Statement: Echo predicate is not working properly to eliminate partition and query is taking longer time to complete Filter With Hard Coded date: Query completes in 2 secs , since it is directly hitting the July 31st partition alone SELECT *...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

Add a value to TYPE column of SYSPACKAGE to indicate that Package is IDAA Enabled

I’m surprised that there is no reference in SYSIBM.SYSPACKAGE, I’m sure there is a lot of customer code out there that generates BIND Cards and would not think to look in SYSACCEL.SYSACCELERATEDPACKAGES, to determine BIND options. Separating th...
over 5 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

BLU should tolerate Tools and Applications which are currently not BLU-aware

We currently employ with the introduction of db2 v10.5 BLU for our DWH. Our plan is to store almost all data in columns store. Just in exceptional cases tables should be stored row oriented. That's why we have set the registry variable DB2_WORKLOA...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

db2ReadLog API looks for pruned log files.

db2ReadLog API tries to read already pruned logs and returns error code SQL1273N with error message "An operation reading the logs on database "****" cannot continue because of a missing log file "S0000012.LOG" on database partition "0" and log st...
over 5 years ago in Db2 5 Not under consideration

DB2oC UI logon acceptance user name size greater than 20 characters

DB2oC User Interface is a smart way to access administration roles in a DB2oC instances. DB2oC UI has a limit of 20 (twenty) characters to user name size. In my company, for security purposes, we priorize logon proccess that uses IBMCloud App-ID s...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Deploy new/unused packages without causing performace impacts

With current DB2(V11.1 FP2, FP4), Deploying a new or an unused packages causing variation and catalog locks impacting performance. HOLDHDL WAITHDL HOLDER WAITER HOLDMODE OBJTYPE TABNAME SCHEMA SECS STMTTEXT ---------- ------- ---------- ------...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration