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Serviceability

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de-cluttering of db2diag.log(RIMS)

[This requirement originates from JPMC EDW/RTC group] The db2diag.log is an extremely useful reference for both customers and db2support persons. We are able to identify milestones events, find errors, and gather clues to their issues, all before ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Allow a DBA connection even if maximum connections has been exceeded.(RIMS)

Note from customer: Jill, We need a feature enhancement, where there is a way for a DBA to always be able to connect to the DB (at least one connection), even if maxappls, maxagents, maxwhatever has been hit. DBAs shouldnt have to force off applic...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

LOCK ESCALATION: Ability to specify table-level lock-escalation criteria.(RIMS)

Customer wants more granularity on lock-escalation semantics. currently, lock escalation occurs either when an application hit's the MAXLOCKS constraint, or when the database LOCKLIST becomes full. Since lock-escalation is more detrimental on tabl...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

New access path for faster first fetch with a good global time

Firstly, I don't know if it is possible. We can encounter this following performance issue : select on a big table with an order by. Depending on the statistics, we can have list prefetchs on an index. If the index is very big, we have to wait a l...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Automatic propagation of a significant application name

When a java program connects to the database, the application name is usually db2jcc_application. This behavior can be overridden by setting the appropriate properties in the DB2 driver. Unfortunately, it is rarely done (from my experience). It co...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Connect ACR message when ACR is not configured(RIMS)

This customer finds it is inappropriate for DB2 Connect to log the following ACR (Automatic Client Reroute) message: ADM2508I Client Reroute successful. Hostname/IP Address: hostname/IP address and Service name/Port number: service name/port numbe...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Need complete OS version information from SYSIBMADM.ENV_SYS_INFO(RIMS)

SYSIBMADM.ENV_SYS_INFO currently only provides OS_VERSION and OS_RELEASE. This is insufficient information for OCM customers because it does not tell them the important part of the version number which is the modification levels. For example, here...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

db2look -xd is not extracting all authorization privileges(RIMS)

Customer is complaining that the -xd option of the db2look utility is not generating all authorization DDLs, ast he DB2 Infocenter states, as the implicit privileges given to PUBLIC for selecting on catalog objects is not extracted. Customer is re...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Since proc_priocntl is required to be documented in Installation;Upgrade;Solaris Pre-Reqs and(RIMS)

Headline cont.. outside of just WLM documentation Description-See PMR45988 Verizon took a performance outage because proc_priocntl was not set. They had no way of knowing that it should be. It is only mentioned under Workload Manager in the DB2 do...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Modifications to both the Tivoli APIs and the IBMLDAPgroups plugin(RIMS)

1.Write out more info in the db2diag.log as to what server we are hitting when doing group lookups in AD. This would probably require modifications to both the Tivoli APIs and the IBMLDAPgroups plugin. Today, we receive an error (Cant contact LDAP...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration