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Unicode Data type(RIMS)

Customer's model so far has been to minimize their deployment of unicode databases (it has to do with complexity and db2 skilling), so for cases where they require some columns of unicode data, they want a built-in DB2 datatype to support this. Fo...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Online ALTER TABLE ability to rename column; change nullability; drop col.; etc.(RIMS)

Customer wants ALTER TABLE to be more robust. Specifically, the ability to rename a table's column, drop a column, change nullibility and other unsupported attributes. � To accomplish this now the table must be recreated and repopulated, which i...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Event Monitor Support for XA(RIMS)

State Farm has found the current Event Monitor doesnt produce reliable results and the lab has confirmed that this is true. In a future release they would want the Event Monitor to work with XA transactions without any restrictions and be able to ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

sqldbdir & sqlnodir owned by regular user / Security exposure (RIMS)

PMR 44825,035,649 db2icrt creates a directory ~/sqllib with 775 permissions for a new instance. It does not 'bother' to intially create directories ~/sqllib/sqldbdir, ~/sqllib/sqlnodir and ~/sqllib/sqlgwdir. If dbm cfg is updated with a group for ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

CARMA Association

Our team is working on product Association. We wish to see all the possible association between product. We are using CARMA node with as minimal support 0 and minimal confidence 1%.The minimal value of the parameter are hard coded so we can't take...
about 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

DB2 to add support for Oracle equivalent UTL_RAW package methods.

Oracle provided UTL_RAW to do bit calculation and comparison. After setting DB2 COMPATIBILITY VECTOR for ORA also we don't have any support for these packages in DB2. Oracle's UTL_RAW functions e.g. BIT_AND does not have any limitation on input RA...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 1 Not under consideration

A need to have ability to specify key-expression (UPPER, etc) in INCLUDE clause of CREATE INDEX

There is a need to be able to use UPPER in columns participated in INCLUDE clause of CREATE INDEX statement.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve precision of IFCID 199 times

Currently the two measures of average I/O delay in IFCID 199 (i.e. QW0199SV and QW0199AD) are only precise to one millisecond. We are about to move some critical Production DB2 tables and indexes to SSD (Solid State Disk), which means that these t...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Implement SMF records to have accounting info about inside statments

DB2 just counts the outside statement in its accounting report. It ignores all the inside statements.
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ASUTIME does not currently interrupt workloads running in Stored Procedures

ASUTIME work correctly for Stored Procs
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration