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TIMESTAMP with TIMEZONE

Competitive databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQL Server along with others have data type TIMESTAMP with TIME ZONE but LUW does not. Our own DB2 on z/OS starting version V11.0 has TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 2 Future consideration

add DB2 drivers support for Entity Framework 6.3

I can imagine most of the .NET APIs currently connecting to DB2 are using Entity framework with your EF DB2 drivers (EntityFramework.IBM.DB2). With the release of .NET Core 3.0 & Entity Framework 6.3, the EF 6.3 runtime package now targets .NE...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 4

Enable compression for LOBs that are not inline

Customer would like non-inline LOBS to also be compressed, as inline LOBs can currently be. Many other datatypes can be compressed and there are many large (up to 20MB) LOBs that are stored outside the table that would not eat up so much space if ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

DBA needs control over Jobs from Automatic Maintenance

We recently had an outage due to automatic maintenance - reorg on a table to reclaim extents. Application A (db2hmon) was running a reorg reclaim on a table and Application B which was already connected to the database and was running a job, as a ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

CLP command shoud read db2dsdriver.cfg

Db2 command line processor (CLP) shoud read the db2dsdriver.cfg (as CLPPlus does) in order to set particular parameter as current application compatiblity or current packageset when you need a different value from the the default. Thanks
7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

add option to installFixPack command -f nojava

IBM ask to update java few weeks ago Then IBM ask us to apply a fixpack on our DB2 databases. The command installFixPack apply the DB2 fixpak and also install a new java version older than the one we installed few weeks ago. Could you modify the...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

db2pd -dump enhancement

Hello, Sometimes there is hung situation when we run db2pd -dump . Is that possible to enhance the db2pd -dump to throw the error messages instead of causing Db2 hung situation?
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 2 Not under consideration

Estimate the optimal BLU columnar compression rate by sampling data

A technique is needed to determine optimal data compression rates for BLU columnar tables. Such a utility should estimate the optimal compression rate without and with the new string compression enhancements delivered in Db2 11.5 code stream. In e...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Functionality already exists

Avoid SQL0955C Sort memory cannot be allocated to process the statement. Reason code = 3

It would avoid Db2 errors and interruptions. Every customer using Db2 BLU who ran (or will run) into SQL0955 RC3 errors would benefit.
about 4 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Redesign of cleanup on remote cursor load of LOB data

Customer migrated from DB2 9.1 on Solaris to DB2 9.7 onLinux. As restore is not supported between different endianarchitecture, load by remote cursor was used for datamovement. There was one single table storing about 400 GB ofLOB data (BLOB), tot...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

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