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My votes: Db2

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Option to avoid sampling for the distribution statistics without creating an index

Because of a misleading distribution statistic the Db2 optimizer can in some situations choose a very bad execution plan.The reason for this is, that Db2 internally samples data to faster create his distribution statistics. To create an index to a...
about 15 hours ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Submitted

Possibility to check object state on HADR standby without ROS

Unfortunatelly some people on our HADR systems do deployments for which we are forced to set BLOCKNONLOGGED off (it's normally on on all systems). This may cause (depending on what they do) that objects on HADR standby become "destroyed" because t...
15 days ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Submitted

dmctop should be able to work with pseudo-terminal

dmctop has the limitation that it does not work with pseudo-terminal In new sudo versions the default in /etc/sudores is „use_pty“. This setting is because of a security issue and should not be changed. This means that dmctop does not work togethe...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / DMCtop 0 Submitted
292 VOTE

Apple Silicon / M1 / M2 / M3 Support for IBM ODBC/CLI Driver

As a developer on macOS with an Apple Silicon chip, I want to use the IBM ODBC/CLI Driver (downloadable from here) natively. Emulating is possible but since I am using this driver via Python, all my other Python code now needs to run emulated as w...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 49

Developing and support for the c7i instance type in DB2 Purescale solution on AWS

The maximum number of EBS volumes (up to 30) that can be attached to current c6i instances that is supported with DB2 Purescale on AWS. The new c7i instance type offers support for up to 128 EBS volumes, which aligns perfectly for enhanced storage...
10 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

Simplify Database Migration for Clients Migrating from DB2z to LUW

Background: Clients who are migrating their databases from DB2 on mainframes to LUW, commonly use the ISO8859-1 code set. These clients need to maintain the exact sorting order they had on the mainframe, which utilizes the EBCDIC collating sequenc...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Submitted

Supporting alerts in pacemaker configuration to enable a post-failover trigger (e.g. to call any shell script)

Customer has HADR and Pacemaker implemented, their Backup&Recovery solution is CommVault.Log Archiving and Backup is shared by using a Virtual Client Name.But requirement from CommVault after a HADR takeover is to inform CommVault server about...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Future consideration

Give an option to add label to VIP in a DB2 integrated pacemaker Cluster

If we have multiple instances running on same host then it becomes very difficult to check which ip address maps to which VIP Example : Pacemaker cluster with two instances and have two Primary VIPs [root@sapgc5db201 bin]# crm statusCluster Summar...
20 days ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Submitted

Have option to stop and start the VIP on specific db node when Pacemaker instance is in maintenance mode

We have a customer which uses VIP extensively for in their current environment (TSA/HADR) and have ability to stop, start and move VIP at will.This helps them extensively with near zero downtime during the database refresh process (very frequent p...
20 days ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Submitted
427 VOTE

Reorg Utility Progress data is missing in db2 list utilities and db2 list utilities show detail command

The db2 list utilties and db2 list utilities show detail command will not display the Reorg utility progress. 1) The command will display the Runstats progress details for the table 2) The command will display the Load progress details for the tab...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 72 Future consideration

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