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Db2

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Profiling for athorities and privileges

Often application owners/developers do not exactly know which authorities (like LOAD) and privileges (like read on syscat tables) are needed on a database for the application workload. It would be helpful to have a method to capture the privileges...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Add a new option in the clp environment to have an error file and an error sql file.

Add a new option to create new output files when executing a clp file :- one containing the failed sql statements - one containing the failed sql errors with error messages
over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

New HADR with SQL apply

Design a new HADR option / way of working : The log records sending works on the same principle that the actual HADR but the apply of the changes is like the apply task of the SQL / QReplication.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Ipaddress similar to how we have distributed dynamic vipa on z/OS

Here's the scenarioState Farm has a client server where they catalog a single node of the purescale cluster 10.5/FP5 then then connect successfully from a 10.5/FP4 client, they then run a statement, then kill a member, the connection gets rerouted...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

New db2 variable to disable the message send into db2diag.log

New db2 variable or clp options to disable the message send into thedb2diag.log
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

DYNAMIC PL/SQL CURSORS ARE CLOSED AFTER A ROLLBACK

Oracle maintain the cursor after not only commit but also rollback operation. On the other hand, Dynamic PL/SQL cursor in DB2 is closed after rollback and reports SQL0501N. Customer is strongly demanding the feature enhancement while it is necessa...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

export from a stored procedure result set

Allow to export the result set of a stored procedure
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Allow blu and row tables to be mixed when using shadow tables

Allow blu and row tables to be mixed when using shadow tables.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Migration Path for new functionality(RIMS)

Provide migration path for new functionality without having to build new objects. I.e. we want new type of tablespace in 9.7 to eliminate HWM problem. Cant always drop and recreate/rebuild objects as we dont have time, cant have outage, etc. Hi...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Longer db and alias names(RIMS)

Longer db and alias names. Medium
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration