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AWS Glue Scanner for lineage

Many customer are based in AWS and wants to trace lineage from that platform including AWS Glue. Currently, we have Supervielle at Argentina that needs to include this scanner to complete their IKC SaaS functionality.
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 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...
19 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review

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.
11 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Request Informix slow queries history

When a user executes a query and the execution time is over x seconds, the SQL text is saved to a database table, along with general statistics like number of times it executes, avg duration, rows retrieve, row sent, etc. This is configured at a d...
23 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Request official support for monitoring Informix with Datadog products

Request the ability to monitor Informix using Datadog products as customer relies on Datadog as their central monitoring platform and would prefer to consolidate all activities there
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Add a way to wait for bufferpool creation when creating tablespaces

What we do when creating tablespaces as part of migration files (think flyway, but any similar utility will be relevant) is to create a bufferpool and then create the tablespace. Example: create bufferpool dummy size 5000 pagesize 8k; create table...
20 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Request block level Informix cluster replication

Using block level replication will avoid a lot of SQL apply processing issues. It will lead to significant performance gains by offloading replication workload. Since it is an identical copy of the primary database, it can even fix corrupt block b...
23 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted

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...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Informix - Adjusting Edition Limits

With the introduction of IDS 15, storage options within an instance have become virtually unlimited. Fortunately, this has also removed several restrictions that, over the years, led to unnecessary administrative effort across different editions. ...
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 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.
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review