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Db2

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DB2 should allow offloaded backup of SMS tablespace to Tivoli FlashCopy Manager

I have an AVP customer who has a 3TB database upgraded from DB2 v8.x. Most user data tables are in SMS tablespaces. They wish to use Tivoli FlashCopy Manager to take database backup and reduce the time for database restore. However, for SMS tables...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Remove timeout for member stop when applying fixpacks to pureScale

The installFixpack for pS automatically stops and starts the member or CF. But before stopping it waits for applications to finish their existing work and drain all connections on this member and start new work to other surviving members. If any a...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Urgent need to monitor database log utilization via db2pd

Urgent need to monitor database log utilization via db2pd
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Federation for XML data type

Description Federation queries (select statements) against an Oracle server are failing if the Oracle table has an XMLTYPE column. Even a select count(*) against these tables fails. Tables in the same Oracle server that do NOT have XMLTYPE col...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Fluid Query 0 Not under consideration

Implement Advisors for recommendations

Would be nice to have advisors and alerts in order to identify need of memory adjustments, table reorging, report the need of collecting statistics, database backups and other important things that DBA should be aware in order to guarantee a good ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Lack of information about Queries from Federated DBs - particulary from DB2 z/OS

From DSM we should be able to see the transactions from federated databases. In the case when we are having some federated transaction contention we are not able to see on the source database on DSM getting more difficulty to diagnose a performanc...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Improve backup configuration

Actually we need to define some environment variables like DSMI_DIR, DSMI_CONFIG to implement a TSM backup. So in case we forget to configure this at first moment we will need to do an instance restart. Would be better to consider some dynamic par...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 4 Not under consideration

Improve lock management

Eliminate a lock needed by a SELECT statement in order to performance a query without need to implement a dirty read - UR.Although there is a solution doing an uncommitted read on the transaction, it requires an application modification changing t...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Execution Plan

At execution time DB2 recommend and implemment the best execution plan for a transaction/procedure automatically.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Facility to monitor and control Accelerated threads

need for monitoring and controlling accelerated threads like is currently available with db2 threads using RLF
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration