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Db2

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Trigger in federated tables

Currently, triggers are not supported with federated tables. That generates an error 30090 errorcode 22; however, this is useful for distributed applications.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 2 Not under consideration

better logging for stack overflow, ulimit stack to small

With this PMR we were searching quite hard for the reason, why a 3rd-party-software was dying with segmentation fault in dynamic linked shared library libdb1.so We could only see:Feb 18 09:01:56 smtcb00254 kernel: [1270273.292859] os4x_licinfo[365...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

HADR : Replicate only a subset of tablespaces

Enable to replicate only a subset of tablespace using HADR
about 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Nodename Limited to 8 Characters(RIMS)

Appears nodename is limited to 8 characters. The hostname allows for 255 characters. Typically we use server name as nodename and the fully qualified server name with domain as hostname. SF is looking at pushing server names to 15 characters. Is t...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

SQL0437W warning should be eliminated(RIMS)

This customer is receiving the SQL0437W warning when the DB2 optimizer changes strategies, this warning makes applications and scripts fail. He is one of many customers complaining that it makes application and script fail. This warning should not...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to configure threshold for trigger to automatic resize(RIMS)

Some IT service providers for the financial industry in Germany have a high degree of automation. They are using AUTORESIZE for tablespaces. Unfortunately, the threshold cannot be specified and DB2 only extends the tablespace when it is full. In s...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

automatic maintenance backup -> more backup options(RIMS)

My customer asked how he can configure the automatic maintenance backup in detail (for example PARALLELISM or BUFFERS). It seems that this is NOT possible at the moment. You can only configure some simple options like the target path for example, ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Write-suspend should never hang the engine and disallow connections(RIMS)

Write-suspend should never hang the engine and require it to be restarted. Connections should be allowed and be able to issue a write-resume. Please see PMR18252,442,000
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Redirect Restore + RF with a user defined MIRRORLOGPATH in the backup image succeeds(RIMS)

Headline cont... nevertheless target MIRRORLOGPATH does not exist. Description-Redirect Restore + RF with a user defined MIRRORLOGPATH in the backup image succeeds nevertheless target MIRRORLOGPATH does not exist. DB2 does not throw an error at Re...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

After HADR takeover new HADR primary should be able to request archive logs from old HADR primary on behalf of HADR auxiliary (s) that require archive logs from old primary in order to rollforward.

After HADR takeover new HADR primary should be able to request archive logs from old HADR primary on behalf of HADR auxiliary (s) that require archive logs from old primary in order to rollforward. We have 3 node HADR Site1a Primary Site1b St...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration