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Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc)

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ONLINE REORG INDEX without logging for HADR

Our Application:24x7. HADR synchronous. LOGINDEXBUILD=ON because of HADR. We have large tables with lots of indexes required for performance reasons. Current problem:We are unable to run online REORG indexes for large tables as this overwhelms our...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Not under consideration

Inplace Reorg should be allowed on a table with an Expression Based Index

Expression Based Indexes (available since V10.5) are a great feature that can improve query performance without adding a new (generated) column and modifying existing code. But, you cannot do an Inplace Reorg on a table with an Expression Based In...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

LOAD / ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE COPY YES and LOB improvements

In an OLTP / TSA HADR environment .. When using the COPY YES on ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE it uses LOAD under the covers. When LOBs are involved howere it writes out the full buffer 64k up to several 100k is written out per column/per row to a file which is...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Add CLP commands not supported by ADMIN_CMD to CLPPlus

Some CLP commands are neither supported by CLPPLUS or ADMIN_CMD. BIND, REBIND and the various REGISTER commands for XSR are particularly troublesome examples. This means that we have to revert to CLP processing rather than doing everything in CLPPLUS
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Not under consideration

Allow inplace reorg of tables with XML columns

Lift the restriction on being able to do an inplace reorg of a table when the table contains an XML column.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

db2move with copy yes option

using db2move to load data in ab HADR enabled database breack the hadr cluster as this command don't support any option to force the use of COPY YES option during load operation., that without any warning or confirmation message.As a consequence, ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Catalog command with comment string length 30 chars is too short

Catalog command with comment string limit of 30 chars is too short. The examples in the knowledge center document use longer strings.We use the string to contain our FQDN server names and often the limit enforces us to short names.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

DBA needs control over Jobs from Automatic Maintenance

We recently had an outage due to automatic maintenance - reorg on a table to reclaim extents. Application A (db2hmon) was running a reorg reclaim on a table and Application B which was already connected to the database and was running a job, as a ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Allow DB2 to export data from a base table in normal state even if index tablespace is in Rollforward pending state

DB2 should allow exporting data from a base table (tablespace) in normal state even if the index tablespace is in Rollforward pending state (or other abnormal state). This would allow us to rebuilt the table without losing data.DB2 should also alt...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

recover droped table with LOBS

System DB2 LUW 10.5.8Actor: DocumentationDescription: The documentation does not fit with the behaviour of the product.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration