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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 ...
    8 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...
    20 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...
    20 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...
    23 days 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

    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...
    about 2 months 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...
    4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review

    Skip db2prereqcheck for x86 Linux packages as an option

    db2prereqcheck may still "complain" about missing x86 Linux packages. Example: [root@db2v121vm1 ~] # cat /etc/os-release NAME= "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" VERSION= "9.2 (Plow)" [...] [root@db2v121vm1 server] # ./db2prereqcheck -i -l 32-Bit "/lib/li...
    5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 6

    Db2 Encryption at Rest breaks backup deduplication

    For the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) Encryption at Rest is mandatory for many databases. Since we have turned on Encryption at Rest, data deduplication during backups is not working anymore. We always have to save the full 15+ TB...
    9 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 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...
    7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Planned for future release

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