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new column alteration feature: enable SET GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP

Use Case: A table is created with the following column definition: TECHTIMESTAMP GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP The clients use the table (already contains data records), so that values have already been generated ...
12 months ago in Db2 3 Needs more information

Support ARM64 Linux

We frequently use ARM64 Linux Docker Containers when we develop python applications on MacOS. The fact that the db2 drivers and subsequently the python packages do not support this makes our development workflow much harder.
11 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 4 Submitted

Make SET TENANT available in connect procedure

The new Db2 release 12.1 provides the namespace isolation via tenant feature. Default is the SYSTEM tenant. The tenant feature is ideal to replace small personal databases for developers where many may have the same sets of tables and also in the ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

Command 'db2pd -reorgs index' does not show info about the progress of reorg index with 'cleanup all' or 'reclaim extents'

There is a limitation to show info with db2pd -reorgs index for command like reorg indexes all for table ... allow write access cleanup all reclaim extents. It is possibile to monitor progress of reorg offline and online but not for the above case...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Supporting alerts in pacemaker configuration to enable a post-failover trigger (e.g. to call any shell script)

Customer has HADR and Pacemaker implemented, their Backup&Recovery solution is CommVault.Log Archiving and Backup is shared by using a Virtual Client Name.But requirement from CommVault after a HADR takeover is to inform CommVault server about...
about 1 year ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Optimize db2advis (recommend indexes) with machine learning (ML) models

Isn’t it possible to use the data model information from machine learning (ML) also for the db2advis (recommend indexes)? The idea is, that db2advis also can use the data model to get new recommended indexes.
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Under review

Table partitioning for column-organized tables

Column-organized tables are currently not supported for table partitioning (e.g. PARTITION BY RANGE)..At the same time, table partitioning is used by many data warehouse customers to speed up ETL activities - e.g.:(a) load new data into a separate...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Tenant level recoverability : The ability to take backups and restore at the tenant level

If Namespace Separation is going to be used for lots of test/dev databases, people would need to be able to do backup/restore of their own tenants.
12 months ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

MON_GET_CONNECTION to show the SSL protocol information for DPF

Please enhance MON_GET_CONNECTION to show the SSL protocol information for DPF when the client connects toa non-catalog partition. This was highlighted in TS020092882 case "DPF-Non-Catalog-Node-Connection-Is-Not-SSL"This is useful to show correct ...
2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Db2 LUW SQL Syntax Check

It would be good if Db2 LUW had a SQL, SQL/PL syntax check engine. You can check queries for correct syntax by using the explain facility, but this doesn't work with DDL statements, functions and stored procedures. An SQL syntax check engine would...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration