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Db2

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Migration from SMS/Raw to AS

How to move the thousands DBs which use a combination of SMS (syscatspace) and RAW to full automatic storage. Some DBs are 100+TB so unload/load is not an option. Need a date for elimination of SMS/RAW support to determine our priotiy!
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

RP Tables syntax

If the “INDEX IN” option is left off the index goes in the default TSP. There is no way to change this later
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Runstats report only

Add the option report to the runstats utility to display the up to date statistics without updating the catalog tables
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Do not block DDL on RCAC-protected table if rule not affected by change

after alter add column RCAC rule must be dropped and recreated, even if new column is not part of rule IBM perspective: In our ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN documentation it says: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPGG_11.5.0/com.ibm.d...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Improving the DBD management design

We had a Db2 load job run that used a load control dataset with 1,764 “INTO TABLE” statements run against a database that had one tablespace with 1,366 tables having 1,306 indexes. The DBD length = 2628728. When the job was run, the SYSDBDXA tab...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Enhancements for SSV backup of a DPF database

This is a request from Wells Fargo Bank to enhance the SSV backup of DPF databases. 1. Throttle the execution of a SSV backup by specifying the number of database partitions to concurrently execute a backup on each physical server. 2. Being able t...
about 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Defaut DATA BUFFER value in LOAD.

Wells Fargo requested if it possible to come up with a lower default value for DATA BUFFER without specifying DATA BUFFER in the load command. For example a registry variable like LOAD_DEFAULT_DATA_BUFFER=1000 that would take effect whenever the l...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

New privilege for IMPORT into a restrictive database

Granting DATAACCESS authority works but is not a desirable option as the user would get access to all tables. Granting CONTROL or INSERT/SELECT, without DATAACCESS, returns SQL0551N. As a result customers are left on their own to pursue and figure...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Security / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Create a storage group in a specific database partition group.

After discussing with Pavel Sustr & Quentin Presley there is current no plans to for this hence the request. I'm copied the initial e-mail request. Is there any plan to allow storage group definition, in DPF, to apply to a particular dbpart gr...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Improve poor query compilation performance due to long lock list traversal in DB2 10.1 and later

Beginning with DB2 LUW 10.1 DGTT-referencing DML started to take catalog locks and therefore we have to free them and potentially traverse long lock chain if the DML is a part of a long-running transaction potentially holding millions of locks. Th...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration