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Db2

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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

Purescale - Event Monitor for Locking - Include member information

In Purescale environment, with currently commited enabled and CS isolation query, we can find situations where a "select" receives a locktimeout depending on which member the connection comes. But, event monitor for locking doesn't include this in...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 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

Update db2haicu to create network equivalencies as dynamic

From PMR 65315.999.866: In determining our HADR configuration, and from running the utility "db2tsacheck" it's been recommended to convert our network equivalency resources from static to dynamic. This allows the interface resource to persist in c...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Hybrid blu column / row tables

Create a new table type wich allow to mix row / column organized table.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

DBM parameter just for DB2diag file

Currently we have db2diag files as part of dbm parameter (DIAGPATH) and all the files (db2diag.log, events,nfy,bin,stack,stmm,dump) going into the same directory. The challenge is in case of issues, we see huge dump files produced (sometimes 40gb ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Ability to append to a file when performing an export

When exporting data to files, every export should be in a different file. And it the business requirement is to have all data in the same file, then it is necessary to do that manually with something external to db2.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration