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Option to disable Repeatable Read Isolation Mode

Some option to disable Repeatable Read. At least on the database level if not the instance level. Once set any set isolation to Repeatable Read statement would either return an error, or be transformed into Committed Read, or just be ignored, what...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

the OS_MEM_FREE Column from Sysmaster:SysMachineInfo is Misleading on AIX

Take for example the following query: select os_mem_free from sysmaster:sysmachineinfo; This returns the amount of free memory on the OS in bytes. Weappear to get this information from the same function thatgathers that info for OAT (via the SMI q...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

misc License Plugin statistics requirement

Report required to see average & max license usage consolidated over two or more license servers per hierarchical and independent user mapping fields, per license server, per feature, per user aggregated over a period of time and in addition a...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Informix Query Engine generates bad query/explain plan

There are situations where two or more columns from the same table are related to each other. For example, product_type and product_code from the products table are related, since only certain product_code values can be associated with a given pro...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Compatibility mode / new function mode

Enable compatibility mode and new function mode like DB2 z/OS. The compatibility mode will allow to use the binaries of a new db2 version without using the new features. The new function mode will allow to use the binaries of a new db2 version and...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Intermediate commit in singleton delete / insert / update

Add a new WITH clause to store the commit interval which will triggers intermediate commits in the mass delete / insert / update.
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 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

Automatic propagation of a significant application name

When a java program connects to the database, the application name is usually db2jcc_application. This behavior can be overridden by setting the appropriate properties in the DB2 driver. Unfortunately, it is rarely done (from my experience). It co...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Restore only data

It should be allowed to restore only the data of a table if the data and indexes of a table are stored in different tablespaces.
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Install - Use an alternative method to get the glibc version

profile.platform core dumped when calling /lib64/libc.so.6 after updating bash. Subsequently, Red Hat patch addressed the bash problem (see https://access.redhat.com/articles/1200223). Request is to use another method to get the glibc version with...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration