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Search results: Db2

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Provide an external interface to check for manual runstats statistics collection

Merged
DB2 currently provides AUTOMATIC STATISTICS COLLECTION as part of automated table maintaince which uses an internal evaluation algorithm to determine the necessity to perform a (then automated) RUNSTATs collection. We are asking for an external me...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Db2 LUW TSM incremental and/or delta backups from FlashCopy off-load server based backup

The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority of Germany (BaFin) uses the Spectrum Protect Snaphot (SPS, aka FlashCopy Manager, FCM) software to create Db2 FlashCopy Backups and to offload them to a backup system. From this backup system are Db2 bac...
over 2 years ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

Improvements for Automatic Runstats

Auto-runstats (AR) is invoked by health monitor on a fixed timer, each timer 7500 seconds (approx . 2 hours) apart. AR consists of "iterations". In each iteration, AR evaluates tables/views one by one. If a table is deemed needing stats, AR will i...
over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Get sequence's NEXTCACHEREFRESHVALUE from cache.

Please see the attached word document and as our development teams are trying to retrieve the NEXTCACHEREFESHVALUE value after ALTER SEQUENCE ..RESTART and before invoking NEXT VALUE but could not able to find the way to get the value of NEXT CACH...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Close Email notifications subject line should match open email notification subject line

We sort our emails by subject to easily see notifications for alerts and if they were closed. For critical alerts DMC uses this format for the email subject when an alert opens: <ConnectionName>: Critical Alert <AlertNumber> <AlertT...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration
1 MERGED

Is it possible to have cascade standby in DB2 LUW

Merged
Let say we have a primary database A, we create standby database B from A. We will create another standby database C which in actual is standby of B database. In other words C is receiving transaction logs from B.B will be named cascade standby wh...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DSNAIMS IMSPlex compliance

In an IMSPlex environment with two clones (A and B), we noticed that, in case of clone A unavailability, DSNAIMS call to IMS transactions via OTMA fails. This happens because clone A is pointed statically via parameter xcf-ims-name; this parameter...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Enable/Disable Query OPT(RIMS)

Ability to enable/disable query optimization for foreign keys at a statement level. Example, many ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes utilize SQL statements to verify data integrity when foreign keys are not enforced. In order to return corre...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration