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Db2 on-premise

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    Support SQL function to unnest JSON data from arrays

    Db2 has native JSON data support. It features functions like JSON_QUERY, JSON_TABLE, and others. However, it is not easy to unnest JSON data stored in arrays. This is required to map nested JSON data to table format. Some other vendors has this ca...
    10 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

    Create TABLESPACE IF NOT EXISTS

    Some objects in Db2 LUW can use the IF NOT EXISTS in a CREATE (or IF EXISTS in a DROP), e.g. for TABLE. But the option is not available for Tablespaces. I believe it is available in other RDMS products e.g. SQL Server. Could the option be extended...
    2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review

    Add option to add comment on database and query the comment with SQL

    Hello,I can add comment on table, comment on column and comments on many more objects, but it seems difficult to add comment on database and impossible to query it. Current work-around is to add comment on database at DBA level. I can SSH to Linux...
    8 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

    Allow binding a tenant into a database alias in the catalog

    It would make managing tenancy easier for a dba if the applications could use an alias bame to connect to a certain tenant in a database auyomatically without other changes to the application or uts connection configuration. It could be something ...
    about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

    Ability for Reorg Reclaim Extents decrease page count from columnar tables

    Currently the Page Count (value seen in column COL_OBJECT_L_PAGES from MON_GET_TABLE) is never reduced even after running Reorg Reclaim Extents.In a columnar table that suffers insert/update/delete we may get into a situation where Db2 will indica...
    5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

    SYSPROC.ENV_GET_SYSTEM_RESOURCES table function should be updated to report Available Memory.

    Proposed Enhancement Description (DB2 Virtual Memory usage calculation) DB2 currently calculates VIRTUAL_MEM_IN_USE using the following query: SELECT MEMBER, MEMORY_SWAP_TOTAL, MEMORY_SWAP_FREE, MEMORY_TOTAL, MEMORY_FREE, CAST(( CASE WHEN (MEMORY_...
    14 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

    OpenTelemetry

    Please develop an OpenTelemetry Interface for DB2, so that at least on a top level, DB calls can be traced. Ideally, it could be brokwn down to more detail.
    about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

    Add REVOKE... ON VIEW for views

    Having a view I would like e.g. to remove SELECT privilege on view from MYGROUP. I have executed: REVOKE SELECT ON VIEW USER1.MYTABLE FROM GROUP MYGROUP And I get error:DB21034E The command was processed as an SQL statement because it was not aval...
    15 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

    The basic commands should have an option to output machine processable format like JSON

    Using automation tools like Ansible would benefit greatly if commands like db2cm, db2ls, db2 li node/db directory, db2 db/dbm cfg and so on would be able output in JSON format.
    3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

    Make EXPLAIN to work out of the box instead of manually maintaining EXPLAIN tables etc

    In PostgreSQL I can just execute: EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM some_table and everything works out of the box, which is very convenient. In IBM Db2 it is required to create EXPLAIN tables, procedures etc basically execute EXPLAIN.DDL script from sqllib/m...
    16 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

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