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Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.)

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DB level default table and index compression parameters

Have a database parameter for the default table compression type, and another for the default index compression type.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

lock table partition in xxx mode

In batch jobs, to avoid lock escalation, customer needs to lock a table partition in exclusive mode, and run dml against this partition.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Migration Path for new functionality(RIMS)

Provide migration path for new functionality without having to build new objects. I.e. we want new type of tablespace in 9.7 to eliminate HWM problem. Cant always drop and recreate/rebuild objects as we dont have time, cant have outage, etc. High ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Indexes (for same table) into separate objects(RIMS)

Customer would like to have indexes (for the same table) stored into separate objects. This would provide the ability to rebuild/reorg/manage a single index, which can help shorten the duration of these maintenance operation and also reduce the ac...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Change buffperpool minimum size(RIMS)

We are looking into some performance issues so earlier I was looking at the STMM log on one of our servers for a bufferpool, below, and was wondering if there is a way to change the minimum size value. ... it would be really nice if we could force...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Create join indexes in DB2

Enable to create a join index like SYBASE.. Note that it could be great to join row stored tables with column stored tables.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

XMLPATH use of global index and s/b local RP index

Was required to rebuild the global index as part of recovery and it took 24+ hours. Should be using a local index
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Allow exclusion of columns from row compression to reduce overflows on updates

We have many large tables in our data warehouse that hold historized data records. There are four date columns:- begin of visibility based on processing time (BAT_BEGIN)- end of visibility based on processing time (BAT_END)- begin of visibility ba...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

deferring index creation with an option to not have to log the rebuild

This was originally opened in Aug 2013 RIMS database (as 8556) In Aug 2013 one of the ids-System customers, an insurance company, had to do an offline table reorg, which had to rebuild index at the end. This is an HADR customer, so index is fully ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Improve performance of DB2 BLU

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over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration