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Db2

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SQLTIMEOUT during FileNet CM metadata creation operations

A SQL_TIMEOUT is experienced when executing multiple SQL statements in a pureScale environment. This does not happen in a non-pureScale environment and when pureScale is configured with only 1 active node. The PMR mentioned has a multitude of data...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

optimizer choice when comparing plans in DPF

DB2 does not identify the tables as collocated even though they exist on the same set of db partitions because they reside in different database partition groups. The optimizer doesn't always make a good choice when comparing plans in DPF. With th...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Add nanosecond as a unity of measurement

As the nanosecond can be specified in the timestamp(12), adding the measurement unit for the nanosecond would be consistent
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

DB2 is not able to force a LOAD application which is hung due to file lock issue on NFS file system

A LOAD operation hung due to not able to acquire lock on file on NFS file system, the LOAD operation stuck at "Setup phase" in the database, however we tried below commands, but either of them can terminate/force the hung LOAD operation off1. LOAD...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Database administrator

Add support for PACKEDDECIMAL to the DB2 import utility.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Update an Oracle table thru Fed Server

Since we have chinese characters in db2, we need to have default sorting by pinyin. Therefore, we can only add Collating sequence (CLDR181_LZH) when creating the db. However, when we use Federation Server which connect to Oracle, I can't use strin...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

lock table partition in xxx mode

In batch jobs, to avoid lock escalation, customer needs to lock a table partition in exclusive mode, and run dml against this partition.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Infosphere Federation Server support for REST/Json

We have Federation Server 10.5 and trying to connect to one of our data source. The service available is REST/Json. We want some support in federating to rest/json from our federation server. The web service wrapper available in the federation ser...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Load using Sockets or RDMA

In pureScale environment, it will be very advantageous to use DB2 load from sockets in addition to pipes.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

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...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration