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Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc)

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db2expln output with XML format.

The db2expln utility provides a plain text file only. Sometimes, OPTPROFILE can be added to tune some terrible SQL. The OPTPROFILE is XML format, but many users is not used to it. If XML format is supported as an option of db2expln then it would ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Enhance CLPPlus to be more equivalent to CLP in terms of functionality

Would like to see CLPPlus enhanced to the equivalent of CLP for at least the following capabilities: - full create database support, including remote client support - update for DB and DBM configuration - CLP equivalency in terms of XSR maintenanc...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

LOAD utility, which run towards to a partition table, should allow other query processing insert/update to other partitions.

The requests for the enhancement of DB2 LOAD utilities so as to run LOAD utility in a specific partition table during the other query processing like select/update/insert/delete on the other partitions in one partition table.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Enhance db2exfmt

Please enhance db2exfmt to support querytag and queryno so that db2exfmt can format a previous explain when the timestamp of the explain is not known (and -w -1 will not work since it's not the last explain). This would allow scripting of multiple...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Start bufferpool command

New db2 commands to start / reallocate the bufferpool : start bufferpool bp32k ;
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Reorg timeout parameter

Set a new parameter to specify a reorg timeout limit.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Add a database option for force application

Add the following options : force applications all for database dbalex;
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

DB2_DMU_DEFAULT=IMPLICITLYHIDDENMISSING, if set at instance level then we should not need it to be specified again in import command just like 9.7 clients

We are facing an issue for version 11.1. FP5 where we are able to load the data into a table with a column in a table which has IMPLICITLY HIDDEN column, In the past we were able to run the import and not specified the column name and it has worke...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

In db2look, for mimic stats, option to include commit each X sentences

In order to mimic an environment, the stats are extracted via db2look, and then inserted a regular execution of the generate file. The problem is that the generated updates could be easily more than 15000 sentences and it has two issues: If execut...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

db2val should allow to receive credencial as parameters

The db2val command cannot check databases when using a external security plugin like Centrify. In this case, this command should allow to specify the user and password to connect to a database.
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

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