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BLU Acceleration

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Allow data type ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP in column-organized tables

We need the ability to define columns with data type ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP in our tables so that we can track when the last change was made. Currently we use normal row based tables which allow this but we want to migrate to column based tables. Wh...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration / Data Types 0 Not under consideration

Provide SYSTEM / UNIQUE collation sequence support for column organized tables when codepage is 819

The lack of support for anything other than IDENTITY collation sequence for codepage 819 makes migration to BLU very difficult for customers who use it.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Support additional single-byte encodings for column-organized tables

The latest updates to DB2 have added the support of codepage 809 (ISO8859-1) for databases using column-organized tables..This is good for many Western customers, who are able to avoid switching to Unicode (and paying the penalty of 2x or 3x chara...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Table partitioning for column-organized tables

Column-organized tables are currently not supported for table partitioning (e.g. PARTITION BY RANGE)..At the same time, table partitioning is used by many data warehouse customers to speed up ETL activities - e.g.:(a) load new data into a separate...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Future consideration

DB2 BLU Acceleration in DB2 pureScale

Wewould like to see DB2 BLU acceleration on a DB2 pureScale cluster.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

System maintained MQTs for BLU MPP

We use DB2 v10.5 DPF for a Warehouse Environment (40TB Data, ~9000 Users, 40 Tsd. Reports per day). We want to migrate the database to DB2 v11.1.1.1 BLU MPP with all tables column oriented. In this case we have checked the functionality for system...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Excessive DBHEAP by BLU compression dictionaries

In current design, when SQL statement accesses a table, the compression and expansion dictionaries of that table will be read into DBHEAP and kept there until database deactivation. For column-based table, the memory consumption may up to 100MB. i...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

Support codepage GBK for DB2 BLU

As of DB2 for LUW Version 10.5 Fixpack 7, DB2 BLU still doesn't support non-unicode database, e.g. GBK. We need DB2 BLU to support database in codepage GBK, so that Chinese characters can be internally stored in double-byte, otherwise a data page ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

BLU CDE Online REORG

Currently BLU CDE tables only have the RECLAIM EXTENTS option of REORG enabled. This does not physically move rows and therefore REORG cannot reclaim extents unless 100% of the rows in an extent have been deleted (via deletes or BLU updates). Also...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 5 Future consideration

Re-build synopsis statistics in BLU

Provide a function to rebuild the synopsis table metadata online/offline to improve query performance.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Not under consideration