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Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc)

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Reorg/Delete(RIMS)

On Z/os they have the capability of deleting records via a select statement at the same time as performing a reorg. This is incredibly useful as the logging is eliminated and of course all the benefits of a reorg Here are some examples. Heres an...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Allow customers ability to limit number LOAD utility errors(RIMS)

Customer has situations where LOAD utilities attempt to insert large numbers of duplicate records. This results in the log files filling up and stopping all DB2 requests until the entire LOAD is rolled back. In this customer's case the rollback(s)...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Codepage option for db2move

Andrew Adams from DB2 Support suggested us to submit an RFE as we are looking for options to specify explicit codepage setting for export/import operation. Please refer PMR 36186,7TD for more information or contact adamsand@us.ibm.com or myself (V...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

built in or external audit utility for Referential TSs

Many problems attempt recovery due to MRT issues with referential table and/or table with parts in multiple table spaces. Need tool to state which table spaces must be recovered together due to relationships. This should be done at backup time aut...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Automate life cycle management of data

For the most OLTP system, some table only keep data for a period of time. We are looking for support to automate the management of this by DB2, ie. auto-prune older data.
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

db2move copy option for partitioned tablespaces

Please implement tablespace map for db2move copy option for partitioned tables, the above pmr has more details on the issue. db2move accepts a tablespace map, but if the souce database has a partitioned table it just fails with a syntax error when...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

DPF IXF Format(RIMS)

On DPF only, you can't Load a multi-partition table from an exported file with an IXF format. We've run into this a couple of times when we had to save off data before dropping/recreating a table. I can understand that there may be something in th...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to limit tablespace objects to specified schema-qualified names(RIMS)

As described in the 'transportable tablespaces' requirement, customer uses � a 1:1 mapping between a schema and it's tablespaces. � They want an option that will allow them to enforce this 1:1 mapping. For example, only objects with schema mys...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

A REBALANCE utility that rebalances container maps (rather then filling in gaps)(RIMS)

The current REBALANCE utility actually moves extents around from higher stripes to lower stripes to fill in gaps of empty extents. This means that containers are not necessarily 'balanced' (ie. contain the same number of extents) at the end of the...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Oracle NUMBER being inserted as NULL(RIMS)

PMR extract: CUSTOMER REP : Tapio Vaattanen 905-413-3930 ENVIRONMENT : UDB/Linux v9.7.3 + special_26292 IBM Data movement Tool (IDMT) PROBLEM : SQL3140W loading Oracle data into DB2. Customer expects DB2 to round up the values to load when using D...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

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