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Db2

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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

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

Solaris client in Db2 v11.5

Db2 dropped the support for Solaris in V11.5, which is fine for server. However, many clients who run in Solaris could connect to other server (Linux, windows, AIX).
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

REFRESH_INTERVAL configurable

No description provided
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Db2 WLM to enable it to prioritize access to physical I/O

We have a Db2 AESE 11.1 fp4a mixed use (but no column tables) data warehouse on an AIX 7.2 LPAR that is limited to 75K IOPS by NetApp. When the threshold is met, high priority OLTP queries submitted by our 1000 retail store POS systems can hang in...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

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

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

To relax DB2 primary group of instance naming restrictions

My organization has all the users and Groups on active directory. The groups on active directory always get prefixed by some characters which are in Upper case due to the type of group we are requesting. Also addition of this prefix add more chara...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration