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Db2 on-premise

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DB2 inplace reorg, pause before TRUNCATE

Inplace Reorg acquires a share lock on the table, when empty pages are to be released after the reorg.To avoid this LOCK the parameter NOTRUNCATE TABLE could be used. But this leaves the pages allocated to the table object.It cannot be determined ...
4 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Improve early exit/early close SQL processing in partitioned environments

In partitioned Db2 environments (MPP), where SQL statements are processed in parallel by multiple partitions and multiple agents on each of them, certain SQL might execute much longer due to processing a section of an SQL (and access plan) that co...
16 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Implement vault access for storing passwords (instead of storing them in config files)

IBM provides Db2 LDAP plug-in modules capabilities as e. g. described here for Db2 v12.1: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/12.1.x?topic=support-configuring-ldap-plug-in-modules There are two parameters (keys) listed, namely SSL_PW and SEARCH_PW. Th...
16 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Future consideration

Enabling a configurable dump directory for all automatically generated diagnostic files

Currently, Db2 does not support redirecting automatically non -FODC (EDU dumps, stack , “flight recorder” ) dump files to a custom dump directory; instead these files are always written to DIAGPATH. Enabling a configurable dump directory for all a...
18 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

make LEAD and LAG Analytic function treated by CDE engine and not fallback to row storage engine

On column organized table, queries that have LEAD and LAG avec very very very slow, there is a CTQ early in the execution plan, DB2 fallback to the row storage engine. in DataVault 2 modeling LEAD function is used in almost all queries to have the...
25 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

pacemaker Quorum - pingable IP

This is related to AHA DB24LUW-I-2236. Pingable quorum is easy to manage and require less hardware / support.
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Only records, which are valid at the current point in time should be considered in RUNSTATS

In environments where SQL queries typically consider only the data that is valid at the time of query execution, statistics based on exactly those records provide higher quality than statistics collected over the entire table. In environments with...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

TEMPORAL TABLES & LBAC

We use system temporal tables (history) for business data. This data will be maintained be different customers. Each customer should just maintain and see his data and not the data of other customers. But we are allowed to see all the data from al...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Submitted

Schema Security-Administrator

We use the concept of virtual databases. There is one physical database which contains more virtual databases (we call it schema-database) So a virtual database is a schema in an physical database. The concept of schemaadm is used to create db-obj...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Not under consideration

Pacemaker Quorum - Container support

Quorum for pacemaker to be supported on Azure container environment. Also possibility of network ping as quorum in pacemaker.
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Submitted