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Search results: Db2

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New ARCHIVE LAG TARGET parameter request.

DB2 doesn't have the parameter which will ensure that each archived log file contains no more than n seconds of changes (like Oracle's ARCHIVE_LAG_TARGET), for example, 1800 seconds. So, if DB2 will fill up the log file before the expiration of 18...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DBM parameter just for DB2diag file

Currently we have db2diag files as part of dbm parameter (DIAGPATH) and all the files (db2diag.log, events,nfy,bin,stack,stmm,dump) going into the same directory. The challenge is in case of issues, we see huge dump files produced (sometimes 40gb ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Control query parallelism by estimated SQL cost

Competing products (Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server) provide the ability to configure query optimizer in a way that it considers using query parallelism only when query complexity exceeds the configured threshold. DB2 lacks that capability, ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration
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Add a new option to force the archive log at a regular interval

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Add a new database parameter to force the archive log at a regular interval.
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Use encryption of user and password for client/server communication as default

Default value of the dbm cfg AUTHENTICATION parameter is SERVER. Also the jdbc/jcc driver does not encrypt the user and password values in a connection by default. Two solution options:1. change default value for dbm cfg authentication from SERVER...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Officially document DB2_SELECTIVITY=ALL parameter setting

The query compiler statement DB2_SELECTIVITY is only documented to allow setting it to either YES or NO. However, YES is quite limited as you can only use the SELECTIVITY statement on predicates that include host variables or parameter markers. Th...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Delivered

Redirect Restore + RF with a user defined MIRRORLOGPATH in the backup image succeeds(RIMS)

Headline cont... nevertheless target MIRRORLOGPATH does not exist. Description-Redirect Restore + RF with a user defined MIRRORLOGPATH in the backup image succeeds nevertheless target MIRRORLOGPATH does not exist. DB2 does not throw an error at Re...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server .Net Provider Support For Informix Types TEXT, BYTE and BOOLEAN

We are in the process of moving from .Net Framework to .Net Core. We currently use the Informix Client SDK ADO.Net drivers to access Informix databases using ADO.Net. When we tried to migrate to the IBM Data Server Driver (IBM.Data.DB2.dll) we fou...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Improve backup configuration

Actually we need to define some environment variables like DSMI_DIR, DSMI_CONFIG to implement a TSM backup. So in case we forget to configure this at first moment we will need to do an instance restart. Would be better to consider some dynamic par...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 4 Not under consideration

Control of Locksize and Maxpartitions for implicitly defined tablespaces.

We must be able to control parameters like locksize and maxpartitions on implicitly defined tablespaces.In DB2 V12R1M504 multi table tablespaces are deprecated, so we need to use implicitly defined tablespaces for QMF useres. Today we use segmente...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration