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Db2

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Page-level recovery request.

DB2 is not able to repair a single bad page, i.e. to perform a page-level recovery.This causes a downtime because the only solution is the execution of the OFFLINE procedures, like RESTORE/RECOVER/db2dart.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Viewing of corrupted pages by SELECTing of catalog.

DB2 doesn't allow viewing of corrupted pages by SELECTing of catalog (like V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION in Oracle). The current workaround is:1) Execution of offline db2dart 2) OR the online INSPECT.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Online Backup compatability improvements request.

DB2 LUW still has a numerous commands/statements which are not supported with the ONLINE backup; (and there is no progress through the years):http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r7/topic/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.ha.doc/doc/c0021554.htmlhttp://...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 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

To enable DB2 stored procedure module refresh in online.

Hello, I am a Client IT Architect in IBM Japan. My customer is NTT Data, a large System Integrator in Japan. NTT Data has gotten the contract with National Tax Agency in Japan in June 2015. They have a plan to develop applications of National Tax ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

UNIQUE INDEXES over BIGINT column can't be compressed

unique indexes over id columns (bigint) are not compressed whereas the same unique index over decimal column gets compressedindex compression for unique indexes is urgently needed to reduce disk and memory footprint
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 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

Use trusted logging with db2audit to protect audit data from instance users and root

On Aix there is a trusted logging which can be used by syslog and AIX auditing. It would be nice if db2 can use this as well to store its audit data. At the moment it is written to Audit Data Path. It would be nice if this can be a character mode ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 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

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