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Db2

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Enhancement of View syscat.bufferpools to show alos stmm bufferpool sizes

When a bufferpool size is set to AUTOMATIC, -2 is being retrieved fromsyscat.bufferpools. But customer wants the current number of pages ofautomatic settings also displayed in syscat.bufferpools. Also a new column insyscat.bufferpools should indic...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Adjusting column status in syscat.tables by synchronizing with column AVAILABLE SYSIBMADM.ADMINTABINFO

Customer mentions that tables which are delivering aSQL1477N should have an inoperative status. But theyhave status 'N' (for normal) insyscat.tables. The only way to retrieve the status of anSQL1477N is to select the column AVAILABLE inSYSIBMADM.A...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Allow REPAIR CATALOG on indexes to reset version numbers

In Db2 Cloning Tool, index version mismatches cause indexes to be rebuilt on the target rather than using the physical copy. Some of these indexes are very large. Corrective measures would be to drop and recreate the index on the source which woul...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Need semi-join capability in BigSQL

In migrating from Hive QL to BigSQL, Sprint has found that their user community used the Hive semi-join function. To minimize the rewriting required, BigSQL support of semi-join is requested.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 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...
almost 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...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Logical Backup

Create “loadable” files foe objects rather than table space dumps. Only base table contents, no indexes
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

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!
almost 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
almost 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
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration