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Search results: Db2

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Apply COS Object lock with a retention period and legal hold for Db2 database backups and log archival.

•As part of the backup, the object(S) created in COS should get an object lock with retention period assigned. •This is used to prevent the backup image from being deleted for that period. Once the object lock expires, the backup image will be del...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 for SAP applications 1 Under review

Automatic Table Partition Creation and Purging Based on Date Expressions

I propose the addition of a native feature in Db2 LUW for automatic table partition management based on a date or timestamp column. Specifically: Automatic Partition Creation: Allow users to define partitioning expressions (e.g., daily, monthly, y...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Future consideration

Simplify Database Migration for Clients Migrating from DB2z to LUW

Background: Clients who are migrating their databases from DB2 on mainframes to LUW, commonly use the ISO8859-1 code set. These clients need to maintain the exact sorting order they had on the mainframe, which utilizes the EBCDIC collating sequenc...
about 1 year ago in Db2 0 Submitted

new column alteration feature: enable SET GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP

Use Case: A table is created with the following column definition: TECHTIMESTAMP GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP The clients use the table (already contains data records), so that values have already been generated ...
10 months ago in Db2 2 Needs more information

Make SET TENANT available in connect procedure

The new Db2 release 12.1 provides the namespace isolation via tenant feature. Default is the SYSTEM tenant. The tenant feature is ideal to replace small personal databases for developers where many may have the same sets of tables and also in the ...
11 months ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

Alert or Threshold Based on Number of Execution of SQL Query

We have noticed that customer is facing database failover issue when number of execution of any one query is very high which is utilizing all of the system resources. Is there any feasiblity of creating alert/threshold on number of execution of qu...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review

Give an option to add label to VIP in a DB2 integrated pacemaker Cluster

If we have multiple instances running on same host then it becomes very difficult to check which ip address maps to which VIP Example : Pacemaker cluster with two instances and have two Primary VIPs [root@sapgc5db201 bin]# crm statusCluster Summar...
about 1 year ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

A DB cfg parameter to set the default tablespace to prevent objects ending up in the wrong TS

When not explicitly set in the CREATE TABLE statement, a newly created table will end up in the last created tablespace. A lot of customers have problems with this for several reasons. They have no control over table placement when using a framewo...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLES needs to support INDEXES on EXPRESSION

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE (AMT) procedure fails in SWAP phase, if the table to be moved has an expression based index defined. This issue has been lifted partially, as the RENAME of the table is now supported with INDEX on EXPRESSION (IoE). But in our case...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 3 Future consideration

Db2 Warehouse Need support for columnar tables when case insensitivity is configured

System: IBM Integrated Analytics SystemActor: Customer requiring capability My customer is migrating from Teradata to Db2 Warehouse (IIAS appliance). The appliance has been configured for Row-organized tables because case insensitivity is required...
about 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration