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Db2

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No Column Information shown when viewing Indexes

When exploring Indexes, when an Index is selected, It shows a great many things about the Index, except it does not show the Columns that make up that index. I have went to different views (Dependencies, Alter) but the Columns that make up the ind...
11 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE CONTINUE after INIT

AMT kann in einem Schritt per MOVE durchgeführt werden oder in einzelnen Phasen - INIT / COPY/ REPLAY und SWAP.Ein z.B. CONTINUE würde feststellen, wie weit der Vorläufer gekommen ist und die restlichen / noch nicht durchgeführten Phasen selbständ...
8 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE should immediately fail or at least warn when source table is ineligible for SWAP

Even after upgrading the database to Db2 V11.5 and beyond, older tables with check constraints and/or generated columns that were created before V9.7 will still cause the SWAP phase of ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE to fail with SQL0668N reason code 10. The und...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

Number of Occurrences for Alert

Alerts need to have the option to set a consecutive number of ocurrences for a check before it alerts. This is an option present in other monitoring tools and prevents a lot of false alerts. Example being number of connections, we have an threshol...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Please make DB2_HADR_ROS a dynamic registry setting

Please make DB2_HADR_ROS registry a dynamic registry variable.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Functionality already exists

Trigger support for BLU tables

Trigger support is part of many replication technologies e.g.- ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE- trigger based Qrep- SAP zero downtime upgrade
about 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

As Db2 system / instance administrator, I need to retrieve instance data without connecting to a regular (tenant) database

Several of the in-memory monitoring table functions and views return data which is instance-related. Still, a database connection is needed just for the purpose of having authentication / authorization / connection handle. This requires administra...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Lighter Weight db2fodc -hang

Db2 Support often asks customers to collect db2fodc -hang to investigate hang issues. This is an heavyweight command that causes severe impact to customers' workload. We need a lighter weight db2fodc -hang command that allows users to input an app...
over 2 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Ability to archive standby - backup and restore(RIMS)

Jill,Please consider this email as a formal request for enhancement to DB2.Verizon needs the capability to do a DB2 online backup of an HADR standby database, along with a subsequent restore of the database that maintains the database as an HADR s...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

INTRA_PARALLEL should be ONLINE configurable

INTRA_PARALLEL should be ONLINE configurable DB CFG INTRA_PARALLEL is configurable, but it should not be just configurable, but ONLINE configurable.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration