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Native built-in string similarity and edit-distance functions for Db2 LUW (Teradata TD_StringSimilarity / EDITDISTANCE equivalents)

Db2 LUW has no built-in way to measure how similar two strings are. The only related functions are SOUNDEX and DIFFERENCE. These are phonetic, English-centric and ASCII-only. Customers who need fuzzy matching, such as deduplication, customer or en...
2 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Submitted

Enable direct, recovery-safe LOAD data streaming between Db2 HADR primary and standby nodes to eliminate shared NFS/SAN copy-image dependencies, reduce tablespace Pending conditions, and improve bulk-load reliability and standby availability.

1. Your Idea Enable direct, recovery-safe LOAD data streaming between Db2 HADR primary and standby nodes to eliminate shared NFS/SAN copy-image dependencies, reduce tablespace Pending conditions, and improve bulk-load reliability and standby avail...
1 day ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Enable coordinated local index builds on Db2 HADR primary and standby nodes to reduce index-related log flooding, minimize replication lag, improve standby replay performance, and maintain recovery and takeover readiness.

1. Your Idea Enable coordinated local index builds on Db2 HADR primary and standby nodes to reduce index-related log flooding, minimize replication lag, improve standby replay performance, and maintain recovery and takeover readiness. 2. Descripti...
1 day ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Publish Individual IBM Db2 Pacemaker RPMs for Automated consumption

IBM could provide individual, supported Db2 Pacemaker RPM packages enabling customers to automatically retrieve and integrate them into their internal RPM repositories. This would allow customers to incorporate Db2 Pacemaker updates seamlessly int...
2 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

Provide the official IBM support for a Pure-Go Db2 LUW Driver

Real-life scenario / Problem statement Banco do Brasil is increasingly adopting the Go programming language for the development of modern applications and services that require direct access to IBM Db2 LUW databases. Currently, IBM does not provid...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

Request to change the criteria to send a notification to customers.

We received the following explanation regarding the monitoring system in Db2 Warehouse SaaS: ===== The monitoring system checks the system's health every minute. If three consecutive health checks fail, the system classifies the condition as a fai...
4 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 0 Submitted

Improved messages on SQL errors showing the location of the problem

It is extremely tedious and time consuming to locate an error in an SQL statement - especially when it is a larger statement with multiple CTEs etc. Currently only a couple of characters near the problem are reported back but these could appear in...
24 days ago in Db2 / Application Development 6 Submitted

Fix Optimizer Plan when text-index is used and STMT_CONC is set to LITERALS

As this technical note indicates, the use of text indexes conflicts with STMT_CONC set to LITERALS, resulting in an incorrect optimization plan: DB2 Text Search performance degradation when STMT_CONC is set to LITERALS. In the details section, I'v...
4 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Submitted

RUNSTATS ON ALL SYSTEM TABLES / VIEWS

We as DB2 admins would like to perform some regular maintenance activities on the many databases we take care of. Due to certain regulations, the database(s) officially belong to our Db2 customers. We basically would need their allowance to perfor...
23 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

REORG ALL SYSTEM TABLES

We as DB2 admins would like to perform some regular maintenance activities on the many databases we take care of. Due to certain regulations, the database(s) officially belong to our Db2 customers. We basically would need their allowance to perfor...
23 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted