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Search results: Db2

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436 VOTE

Reorg Utility Progress data is missing in db2 list utilities and db2 list utilities show detail command

The db2 list utilties and db2 list utilities show detail command will not display the Reorg utility progress. 1) The command will display the Runstats progress details for the table 2) The command will display the Load progress details for the tab...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 73 Not under consideration

Enahncement to DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT setting

Regarding the use of DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT=ON. This env variable will defer memory commitment, asynchronously in the background, for faster completion of ACTIVATE DATABASE. This helps to improve the database activation for large memory systems w...
5 months ago in Db2 1 Under review
204 VOTE

Reduce Time Required for Online(Inplace) Reorg for huge tables

1) Inplace reorg will take time more for the tables with huge data say for example 1 TB 2) To Reduce the time for this we want to avoid full table scan hence we need to look in portions of the data in a table where it is getting fragmented 3) Henc...
over 5 years ago in Db2 21 Not under consideration

Improved functionality for tablespace fast pre-allocation

My customer is experiencing huge performance problems due to Tablespace Pre-allocation (DB2_USE_FAST_PREALLOCATION).At this time, IOCP Timeout occurs in Db2 and many tossbuffers occur in GPFS.This customer has been struggling with this problem for...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 6 Future consideration

Possibility to influence the naming of NSDs in a Db2-managed pureScale installation

We run a regular cloning of a Db2 pureScale to provide a time consistent copy which is used for BI/DWH purposes.This is done via storage features, in our case with HDS (Hitachi) Shadow Image (similar to IBMs FlashCopy). We don't have any issues to...
3 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

Getting the Accessplans at the Routine level for the Database LUW

Db2 performance issues in one of the major area to look for, Whenever there is performance issue in the database, one of the major point we look is for the queries how they are behaving in the database. Db2 LUW provides lot of options to get the a...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 29 Not under consideration

SYSPROC.DB2LK_GENERATE_DDL to become a supported and documented feature and to match db2look

We are using db2 LUW V11.5M8FP0_SB35599 on Linux It is a DPF database. We are using the following 2 db2 tools to generate the DDL of the same database: 1) db2look 2) SYSPROC.DB2LK_GENERATE_DDL - the command used for db2look is the following: db2lo...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 1 Submitted

Have option to stop and start the VIP on specific db node when Pacemaker instance is in maintenance mode

We have a customer which uses VIP extensively for in their current environment (TSA/HADR) and have ability to stop, start and move VIP at will.This helps them extensively with near zero downtime during the database refresh process (very frequent p...
8 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

DMC requirement for improved reporting of metric data for PureScale members

In the current DMC release, DMC aggregates resource usage (for example, CPU) for all members of PureScale connections. The request is to improve DMC to show monitoring metrics values per member with the ability to drill down per database connectio...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 3 Planned for future release

Integrated Pacemaker Monitoring & Alerting Functionality

IBM recently integrated the Pacemaker cluster manager in Db2 but the feature has no documented monitoring or alerting capabilities exhibiting best practices. Enlighten customers with Best Practice/Configuration documentation on how to setup the mo...
about 1 year ago in Db2 0 Future consideration