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Support XA transactions on column-organized tables

We have a main DW database on DB2 for z/OS and a Datamart on DB2 for LUW. Some tables on both z/OS and LUW are populated using Cobol programs which are submitted from the mainframe. We want to convert the Datamart on DB2 LUW to BLU, but the Cobol ...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

predicates blocked when temp table involved in federated joins

Unacceptable slowness and/or timeout for affected SQL due to predicate blocking resulting in fetching all data from backend
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0

Restore from an inline load copy in replace mode

Restore from an inline load copy in replace mode. Currently, we are obliged to restore from the backup first and after to rollforward so that the load backup were used. It makes sense for a load in insert mode, but for a load in replace mode, it i...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

DB2AA Customer Consumable Interface for Memory Monitoring

In DB2AA V4 all of the paired subsystems to a single Accelerator are sharing a common apply agent memory structure of 8 GB. This is a fixed size. As customers add more subsystems to this single accelerator with replication (CDC) enabled, there is ...
about 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

[Workload Scheduling Policy] SOAM - Policy - SSM rackware scheduling

Ability to make SSM “rack aware” like in map-reduce and preference to schedule workload on local nodes
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 3 Not under consideration

Require dynamic shared library for libsoamapi.a

Is there a dynamic linked .so for libsoamapi.a? CVA group needs to use it to build their own self-contained dynamic library for their java apps to load…
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 1 Not under consideration

SQL performance is bad after V10 migrate.

Our customer migrated DB2 V10(NFM) from V8(NFM).In particular query,processing time took one minute in the case of DB2 V8,but DB2 V10 increased to 11 minutes. The VIEW has been used by the customer LEFT OUTER JOIN 50 times near internally.As a res...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SHOW VARY RESULTS WITH BATCHEDREAD_INDEX

support team reply this is work as Informix design, but from customer view, they cannot accept. CIB want IBM to review this issue, hope IBM can change the design.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Informix Multi Instance on zVM

SYSTEM: Informix on zLinux on ZVM 6.1 zLinux 11.2Action: Multi Instance (Residency) performance issues Informix Enterprise server is used for our Electronic Court system at the State of Mississippi. In order to save cost on system resources we dec...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

"Index on expression" should be used more

By implementing an "index on expression", a DBA has the ability to tune many queries that are written poorly without changing the query. This is very useful and allows a DBA to rapidly respond to a performance problem. However, there are some time...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration