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Knowledge center should load content of previous and next articles automatically

When navigating the Knowledge Center, it is necessary to click on the left panel every single article. Some of them are very short to read, and it takes a lot of time to reload the whole page just for a single article. It would be easy if by click...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Be able to ALTER the partitioning key of a UTS PBR

Currently if the partitioning key needs to be changed this involves a UNLOAD/DROP/CREATE/LOAD which is disruptive. This needs to be changed to ALTER REORG.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Fix to enable pureScale support with Red Hat KVM on Power

There is a PCI Passthrough issue on Red Hat KVM that would probably not be fixed by Red Hat until V7.4 at the earliest. LTC has proposed an alternative approach to avoid the contention that pureScale is using PCI Passthrough to address.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

recover droped table with LOBS

System DB2 LUW 10.5.8Actor: DocumentationDescription: The documentation does not fit with the behaviour of the product.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

More Granularity on DISPLAY command authority (display procedure)

We'd appreciate if there was a more granular level of authority to permit schema owners of stored procedures to be able to display status of stored procedures. We are concerned from an audit standpoint that granting system-display privilege would ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Enhance TEMP index purge performance under high concurrency

In the environments that use a high number of temporary tables (DGTTs/CGTTs) with indexes, performance of temp object instantiation is severely impacted under high concurrency, i.e. when we have many objects dropped and recreated at the same time ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0

Support compilation of PL/I and COBOL programs without an active DB2 connection

The compilation of PL/I and COBOL programs on the z/OS mainframe is possible without an active database connection.This does not work on the AIX platform, which requires a database connection during compilation and a DB user withsufficient privile...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

CASE with EXISTS in UPDATE returns SQL0582N, which is inconsistent behavior with db2 z/OS

db2 "update test_tab set c1=case when exists (selectc2 from test_tab where c2=1) then 'A' else 'B' END" DB21034E The command was processed as an SQL statement because it was not a valid Command Line Processor command. During SQL processing it retu...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Update TSAMP License when Db2 License Aplied

On Linux and Unix enviornments you have the ability to install the Db2 Server by installing the latest fix pak and then applying the license file from the Activation download. Unfortunately, when we just did the fix pak install fo Db2 11.1.5.4 and...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

PL/SQL compatibility - default values of procedure parameters

Currently DB2 does not fully support Oracle-style definition of default parameters in PL/SQL stored procedures (including those in functions). The following definition works in Oracle, but requires modification in DB2: CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE my...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration