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Analytical Functions

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Extension to Temporal (TimeTravel) SQL

Avoid error SQL20524 RC 3 which is returned once you try specifying a column name instead of a explicit value like in following SQL:SELECT * FROM FACT INNER JOIN TA_DIM_BITEMP FOR BUSINESS_TIME AS OF colts ON fact.id = TA_DIM_BITEMP.id Just to cla...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Allow Wildcards in ADMIN_GET_TAB_% functions

Example: if one uses a query like this:SELECT ... FROM TABLE(SYSPROC.ADMIN_GET_TAB_COMPRESS_INFO('SCHEMA1', '')) WHERE TABNAME LIKE 'ABC%' The Function will run for all tables in the given schema and after that will filter the output for predicate...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under 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...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Db2 autonomic computing daemon 5 minute polling window

Decrease (or make adjustable) the 5 minute polling time for the Db2 autonomic computing daemon to discover new tasks deployed through the Administrative Task Scheduler.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 1 Not under consideration

DB2 User Defined Function(UDF) on zSeries to convert relational data from existing DB2 tables to JSON

I am looking for something similar in Mainframe described to the following URL which is available in DB2 for iSeries and not currently available on zOS DB2. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/sqlp/rbafyjsonpublishing.htm I th...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

DB2 BLU non-unicode database support for non-identity collation sequence

We currently run on DB2 LUW 10.5.0.6 where our database is created using DB2 API with c-program.The major reason to do this is to support collating sequence similar to EBCDIC as DB2 z/OS is the source of our data.This makes the Database collating ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 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 9 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Support GROUPING SETS and SUPER GROUPS by IDAA

Because GROUPING SETS and SUPER GROUPS are not supported by IDAA, the sqls that contain these features canot be accelerated. Please see also pmr 06487,999,756 I opened it by mistake under LUW. I opened a new idea under DB2 for z/Os with identifi...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 1 Not under consideration

XMLQUERY Not working in the JOINS

Currently we need to use the XMLQUERY in our LEFT OUTER JOINS during view creation. The views are created with no error, While querying the view it fails with below error. An ON clause associated with a JOIN operator or in a MERGE statement is not...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Enable multiple query optimization class

Add a new database configuration parameter to let DB2 the use of several query optimization classes when compiling an sql statement and choose the best access path depending on the query cost. It could be done automatically depending on a fixed th...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration