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Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.)

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Simplify shadow tables replication

Integrate the CDC engine in the DB2 engine and allow to configure the replication with SQL commands.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

"delete cascade" does not work with "not enforced"

The option "not enforced" on a foreign key invalidates an already set "on delete cascade" option, although this is not visible anywhere within the data model or documentation. In my opinion, setting one of these options should prohibit the other o...
9 months ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Support for "every" in the "alter table add partition" to add multiple partitions

The "create table" statement supports this syntax to create a table with multiple partitions: CREATE TABLE DOCUMENTS ( ID INTEGER, CONTENTS VARCHAR(10)) PARTITION BY RANGE (ID)(STARTING 1 ENDING 1000 EVERY 100) This will create a table with 10 par...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

Table Partition creation auto extension Functionality

Today DB2 doesn’t provide the auto table partition extension Functionality. We would like to have the Functionality available, could you please let us know if this is feasible and if yes how soon it would be available. This is Functionality is ava...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

Reorg: detailed information about Reorg incluiding a time/percent prediction to complete the all process

There is no way to find out how long the Reorg process or some steps will take, specially for big tables.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Block locking for U/D on MDC when LOCKSIZE=BLOCKINSERT

Block locking is done for INSERTs on MDC tables when LOCKSIZE = BLOCKINSERT, which is a great benefit for memory usage, and allow to parallelize treatments for different dimensions. However, this is unsufficient, because treatments do also Update/...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Declarative RI for Db2 LUW Bitemporal tables

it would be good to implement Bi-temporal Period Containment with declarative RI in Db2 LUW
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

BID lock avoidance on MDC tables

2 DMLs working on different dimensions on MDC can lead to deadlock when this should not happen. Ref: case TS000003442
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

DB2 should allow offloaded backup of SMS tablespace to Tivoli FlashCopy Manager

I have an AVP customer who has a 3TB database upgraded from DB2 v8.x. Most user data tables are in SMS tablespaces. They wish to use Tivoli FlashCopy Manager to take database backup and reduce the time for database restore. However, for SMS tables...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Hybrid blu column / row tables

Create a new table type wich allow to mix row / column organized table.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration