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Online ALTER TABLE ability to rename column; change nullability; drop col.; etc.(RIMS)

Customer wants ALTER TABLE to be more robust. Specifically, the ability to rename a table's column, drop a column, change nullibility and other unsupported attributes. � To accomplish this now the table must be recreated and repopulated, which i...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Unicode Data type(RIMS)

Customer's model so far has been to minimize their deployment of unicode databases (it has to do with complexity and db2 skilling), so for cases where they require some columns of unicode data, they want a built-in DB2 datatype to support this. Fo...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

VARRAY datatype that could also be used in queries (joins; in-lists).(RIMS)

Oracle's VARRAY datatype.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Keep a row count in the table statistics(RIMS)

Keep a row count in the table statistics like redbrick does. Select count(*) shouldnt take 15 minutes no matter how big the table is  And that is 15 minutes and still running  And there should be an aliasing mechanism in place where a select co...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 1 Not under consideration

VARCHAR_FORMAT/TO_CHAR function does not support timestamp formatting using brackets(RIMS)

PMR 28054,020,649 Customer is moving from Oracle to DB2 and under their Oracle applications they are using the TO_CHAR function. That function works in DB2 under the name of VARCHAR_FORMAT or TO_CHAR. The following TO_CHAR function is not working ...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

unique where not null' indexes(RIMS)

Customer requested to open a DCR for 'unique where not null' indexes. Can this done? This feature exists in DB2 zOS but not in DB2 LUW. This DCR is already opened for another customer in the US, but as far as I know, it's not possible to 'vote' fo...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

DPF IXF Format(RIMS)

On DPF only, you can't Load a multi-partition table from an exported file with an IXF format. We've run into this a couple of times when we had to save off data before dropping/recreating a table. I can understand that there may be something in th...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Method to determine ETA to completion of Load copy-image replay(RIMS)

There is currently no method to determine an ETA to completion of the Load 'COPY YES' copy-image replay on Standby or during Rollfwd-Recovery. This is especially important in HADR scenario because while the copy-image is being replayed on Standby,...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Range-Partitioning support for dimensional ranges (not to be confused with MDC)(RIMS)

Customer has use-cases for defining range-partitions across dimensions and not just columns. Currently, DB2 only supports ranges defined across columns (see Discussion section for an example).
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Text Search Synonym Table(RIMS)

Have a way to automatically create this table without typing this. Perhaps a 'gui' or a way to export from an Excel spreadsheet. Anything except to manually type in from a command line. Jeff Mousty State Farm during the Frequency Call with Tim Vin...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

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