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Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.)

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Asynchronous index rebuild on first access

Pain point: Index rebuild stops if user terminates the connection accessing the table with an index that is marked inconsistent and it starts over from the beginning again on next table access by another user. Scenario:An index object is marked in...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Recommend/evaluate indexes – more information for each index

This is a point for tuning with indexes -> Tuning with indexes is still very common and useful. While using recommend and evaluate indexes it is possible to investigate each recommended index by updating USE_INDEX column in the table ADVISE_IND...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Reorg online on 24x7 applications

The reorg online process need to lock the table in order to conclude. This is not a problem when you dont have many transactions, but when you have a 24x7 intense workload you might have a huge impact on your application.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

External Tables support on Windows

I went to use this marvelous feature on windows.. and for my surprise external tables are not implemented for this platform :-( (v11.5) Why ? Please, add support for external tables usage on windows hosts as well .
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Future consideration

ITC tables for pureScale

ITC are very useful to have table that have large batch deletes on it. Then space reclaim is a quite easy and fast task using REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS ONLY.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Increase the maximum size of a LOB object per table or per table partition

SQL and XML limits https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_11.1.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.sql.ref.doc/doc/r0001029.html The maximum size of a LOB object of 4 terrabyte leads to the necessity of partitioning the table just due to this limit. S...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 2 Not under consideration

Add the hidden attribute for index

我们希望给索引添加一个属性visible on/off比如:ALTER INDEX VISIBLE ON (默认属性)ALTER INDEX VISIBLE OFF (索引不可见)当索引不可见以后优化器无法使用不可见的索引,如果需要,直接alter index ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Excessive DBHEAP by BLU compression dictionaries

In current design, when SQL statement accesses a table, the compression and expansion dictionaries of that table will be read into DBHEAP and kept there until database deactivation. For column-based table, the memory consumption may up to 100MB. i...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

System Tables should come with STATISTIC PROFILE set from factory

We all know how important STATISTICS are, and more specially, how they are captured for each particular table ! Documentation says that DBA and application sholuld determine best options, based on usage.. but ibm is lacking to do the same for thei...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

Increase the number of ALTER TABLE operations that can be performed online without placing the table in "reorg pending" state

There are a few operations that seem to place the table into "reorg pending" state immediately when it should be possible to treat them as REORG-recommended. For example, any ALTER COLUMN .. DROP COLUMN statement that doesn't affect indexes should...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration