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Db2

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Make Export add a column header row to output

Export is often used to download data from a Db2 Server to a user's workstation where they then look at it in excel.
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Not under consideration

db2diag.log change ZRC=0x82100101 Sever and Error message to Informational

IBM support has informed us that the following messages can be ignored, if so, then they should not appear as "Severe" or "Error" in db2diag.log, suggest we change them to "Info": MESSAGE : ZRC=0x82100101=-2112880383=SQLP_LOG_NOT_ACTIVE "Log need...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2

Change the "Pending Backup State" to NO when backup is done to /dev/null

There can be situations where customer wants to switch from circular logging to Archival logging and vice versa. Currently, when a switch from Circular Logging to Archive Logging is requested, Db2 sets the database state in "Backup Pending" state ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 7 Functionality already exists

Truncate incompatible with online backup command

Db2 online backup for warehouse environments running longer depending on database size, online backup command have a lock incompatibility with Truncate table command which is says backup is not fully online. This should be one essential feature th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

Improve precision for CURRENT_TIMESTAMP on windows

when asking for the CURRENT_TIMESTAMP on Unix systems, we have 6 decimal precisions for the timestamp value. yyyy-mm-dd HH.mm.ss.nnnnnn - TIMESTAMP(6) but for windows, current_Timestamp just provides a milisecond precision yyyy-mm-dd HH.mm.ss.nnn ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 2 Future consideration

User ID metrics Consistency across several monitor interfaces

User Id identification metrics are not consistent across different monitoring interfaces. Db2 offers different metrics to identify the end user. CLIENT_USERID SYSTEM_AUTH_ID SESSION_AUTH_ID The same 3 metrics should be available in ALL places wher...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Automate Online Reorgs

Currently, automatic reorgs can only be performed offline. The additional functionality we are looking for would be the ability to perform automatic in-place/online reorgs. The benefit of that is users still have full table access during the proce...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

db2luw purescale support for RoCE V2

Consider certifying and enhancing db2 purescale product with support for cisco ACI network fabric [ spine and leaf architecture ] environment for RoCE V2. We currently are not able to deploy purescale with our ACI network infrastructure and use Ro...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

DPF Support for HADR(RIMS)

DPF Support for HADRDPF Support for HADR
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

db2 "export to employee.del of del modified by coldel\t select * from test1"

DB2 Export cannot export data with a two-digit delimiter (\t). If I want to export data separated by \t, DB2 will not be able to support it
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 3 Future consideration