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Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.)

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Creation of range-partitioned tables during TRANSPORT

Whilst working on a recent pureScale POC with a customer, we came to the stage of upgrading their existing database to pureScale. Existing database had a catalog SMS tablespace. pureScale has a requirement that all tablespaces have to be AUTOMATIC...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Simplify shadow tables replication

Integrate the CDC engine in the DB2 engine and allow to configure the replication with SQL commands.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Truncate table partiton

1. many customers expect to truncate a table partition without first detach and then drop, and finaly add a new partition with the same definition as the detached partition, because they may design their range partition as "Jan, Feb, ... Dec" with...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Create join indexes in DB2

Enable to create a join index like SYBASE.. Note that it could be great to join row stored tables with column stored tables.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

RP Tables syntax

If the “INDEX IN” option is left off the index goes in the default TSP. There is no way to change this later
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

XMLPATH use of global index and s/b local RP index

Was required to rebuild the global index as part of recovery and it took 24+ hours. Should be using a local index
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Allow exclusion of columns from row compression to reduce overflows on updates

We have many large tables in our data warehouse that hold historized data records. There are four date columns:- begin of visibility based on processing time (BAT_BEGIN)- end of visibility based on processing time (BAT_END)- begin of visibility ba...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

deferring index creation with an option to not have to log the rebuild

This was originally opened in Aug 2013 RIMS database (as 8556) In Aug 2013 one of the ids-System customers, an insurance company, had to do an offline table reorg, which had to rebuild index at the end. This is an HADR customer, so index is fully ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Improve performance of DB2 BLU

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over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Be able to DROP "restore pending" TABLESPACES supporting RP tables after RESTORE REBUILD

After RESTORE REBUILD of a slice of Prod DB into Pre-Prod DB, it is impossible to drop "Restore Pending" tablespaces supporting RP tables, you get SQL0282N. You can't detach "unrestored" partitions into junk either SQL0290N. So you are stuck and t...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration