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Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc)

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use of wildcards for table selection with REORG,RUNSTATS etc

Certain utilities that most of the time operate on a (sub)set of tables like REORG and/or Runstats would be much easier to operate if the set of tables to be processed could be selected by means of wildcarding. The wildcarding should be enabled on...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration
133 VOTE

export data from tables out of a backup image

Introduce a new parameter to the export utility to be able to export data from a table that is in a backup image.This functionality is especially useful for data extraction without touching/impacting the source system
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Future consideration

Enable classic reorg with "allow write access"

Many customers want to REORG their tables quickly and efficiently. The classic REORG is by far the fastest option but puts the table in read only mode. Inplace reorg allows write access but is much slower and not suitable for tables that have a hi...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 3 Future consideration

BLU Load message improvement for SQL3119W

DB2 BLU load on LUW provides a less than optimal message for SQL1119W. It reports that an input data value has been replaced by NULL but does not indicate which specific input row caused the error resulting in no good way to troubleshoot the issue...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

LOAD utility should allow huge loads to run with out blocking transactional log files

Please let me explain more about how i look at LOAD utility.LOAD utility is a way to write data into database quickly by ignoring the traditional route into the system, like query processing insert/update/delete.LOAD utility will by pass many perf...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

support "fixed record length" for load/import with UTF8

Load and import do not support "fixed record length" for MBCS.The field offsets have to be specified in bytes only.There is no possibility to let the data movement tools "think in letters, instead of bytes".
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

timeout option for log archiving sessions / db2vend on WINDOWS

We work with DB2 on WINDOWS and an external vendor (EMC Networker) for backups and archive logging. If network or the vendor have a problem, the archive logging forever tries to use the vendor process and in the meantime writes to a FAILARCHPATH o...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Load utility performance is very slow with the large bufferpool size

System: e-tax systemActor: User feels a bad performance of DB2 load utility DB2 V10.5 is a commonly used product that provides electric tax system.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Enhance db2exfmt

Please enhance db2exfmt to support querytag and queryno so that db2exfmt can format a previous explain when the timestamp of the explain is not known (and -w -1 will not work since it's not the last explain). This would allow scripting of multiple...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

db2look to exclude generating DDL for sequence objects

db2look has option to exclude generating definition for views, federated objects,... etc, and this is great. It would be good if it also offer option to exclude things like sequence objects, and maybe just include objects like functions, stored pr...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration