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Db2

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Monitor activities by the user

Regarding DMC capabilities, I would like to know if there is a possibility to monitor activities by the user. This is very important for our Db2 environment, whether qualified or unqualified table names are used (in case of unqualified names would...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 3 Functionality already exists

Change the mapping of a timestamp with timezone from varchar to a Db2 timezone for a Postgres database source

Currently the timestamp with timezone in a Postgres source database is mapped to a varchar and that limits how you can query and manage it. Other data sources map this data type to a timestamp allowing for normal processing using the various time ...
2 months ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Submitted

Improve SQL0293N when creating database on 4K sector size disk

On CREATE DATABASE db2 reports a very generic error message SQL0293N when there is a write access to a 4K sector size disk. Instead should do a check when creating containers e.g. read 512 bytes, if this does not work, read 4K block. If 4K block c...
2 months ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Future consideration

Db2 exporter

Kindly help build Db2 native and/or Sql based exporter. This exporter should be developed in such a way that It should be non-intrusive & no performance impact to the databases which are being monitored, Similar to nosql db metrics exporter av...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

db2expln stopped working from db2v11.5.7.0 onward on HADR STANDBY

db2expln, doesn't write / update and tables on the database and it was working till db2 v11.5.5 on STANDBY RO enabled, from v11.5.7.0 it stopped working, many time there is a need to check explain out on STANDBY RO enabled
over 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery / Statements (DDL and DML) 6 Functionality already exists

Warning error code for Db2 tablespace architecture limit

If Db2 tablespace reaches architecture limit of 90%, then there should be a Warning Message write into db2diag.log, so that before it is reaching 100% of Db2 tablespace architecture limit, this can be fixed. Now we are monitoring through a SQL...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 2 Not under consideration

Provide LOBS support for columns over 32kb

There is currently no LOBS support for columns over 32kb in BigSQL Hadoop tables. For column which size is over 32KB, there's a limitation on the DDL when creating the table (maximum size is 32672), hence whole data/string couldn't be retrieved wh...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Future consideration

overrule the automatic CPU parallelism calculation of LOAD apart from command line

LOAD does an automatic CPU parallelism calculation, if not explicitly specified in the command by the user.To gain max performance, LOAD assumes, it is the only LOAD (and only application) running on the system and consumes nearly all available CP...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to keep configuration parameters in sync on HADR standby databases

Currently configuration parameter changes (db2set, dbm cfg and db cfg) on HADR primary database do not propogate to the standby databases. Having an optional clause or switch to propogate the config changes will ensure that on failover to standby ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Create a "RUNSTATS Check" report similar to the REORGCHK

Although there is an Automated RUNSTATS, some people prefer to execute RUNSTATS manually. Having some ability to run a report that "Recommends" that a table should have a RUNSTATS performed would assist in making decisions. with thousands of table...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration