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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...
9 days 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...
26 days 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...
9 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Add new behavior to REORG TEMPLATE STACK to take advantage of parallel processing for PBR/PBG at partition level while using ICLIMIT_TAPE

LISTDEF REO11002 INCLUDE TABLESPACE DRATEEM1.SEMHNSA PARTLEVEL(549:551) PBR NPSI ICLIMIT_TAPE 2 PARALLEL (30) STACK NO behavior There will be no UNLOAD/RELOAD parallelism due to STACK YES being on the TEMPLATE for the Image Copy even though ICL...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 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.
8 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...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review

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...
9 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Allow a MASS DELETE as a recovery point for a tablespace

As we discussed in case TS019823289, we believe it's necessary to be able to use a MASS DELETE (recorded in SYSCOPY) as a recovery point for a tablespace. This would avoid reading large amounts of log files that, in our view, aren't necessary. We ...
6 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 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...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review

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...
8 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Under review