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Deliver DSNHBNFE from SDSNSAMP in EBNF format

The DSNHBNFE member delivers a formal definition of the Db2 syntax in BNF format. However, tools like ANTLR can generate lexers/parsers automatically if the language is delivered in a EBNF format. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Backus%E2%8...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 13 Not under consideration

auto-reorg OLR for cleanup of overflows

Auto-reorg should use online window to issue REORG CLEANUP OVERFLOWS (and also trigger a RUNSTATS afterwards).Problem to solve: SQL optimizer thinks overflow accesses are quite expensive and then might to start choosing different access plans that...
over 6 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Add timestamp to all -DISPLAY command outputs

More and more companies are using multiple DISPLAY commands to track for problems or usage statistics etc. The problem is that the TIMESTAMP when the command was issued is not in the output (apart from DISPLAY BLOCKERS) It would be really good to ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SQL Trace filtering

SQLTrace enable the DBA to get the query plan of all the queries executed by a user (when mode=user) or by all users (when mode=global). Given that nowadays web applications and/or APIs use connection pooling, they submit a large number of queries...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for Management Console

We have run into a situation where we need to have select access on application objects in order to be able to use Management console. However this type of application access is restricted to our 'privileged' IDs, which use 2FA to login. But Manag...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Section actuals for BLU

Collecting section actuals and compare it with the SQL compiler estimates using the db2caem tool is quite handy to find cardinality mis-estimates in huge plans.
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Performance penalty in LOAD when using large bufferpool

LOAD RESETDICTIONARYONLY and other LOADs take very long, if table resides in large buffer.The limitation also applies to LOAD on row based tables, but bufferpools on BLU systems tend to be much larger.
over 6 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Increasing report description field to handle more than 1024 characters.

In 11.1.7 version of reports, users where able to add comments in description for any amount length or atleast greater than > 1024 characters, the max we had currently is 2997 characters, But in 11.2.4 release a new parameter was added to cmmet...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Provide a facility to track Db2 Command History

A table that would record commands (like START/STOP, ), when they were executed, by whom, etc. Some commands (like DISPLAY) could be excluded. One Use Case would be to analyze why a tablespace might be in UT status when no utilities are running. A...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Enable data formats for CSV and Excel Data

Data formats can be changed in the package and in the report itself. But this only affects the output formats HTML, Excel and PDF, but not the output formats CSV and Excel Data. Specifically, we want to change the timestamp format and increase gra...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration