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Db2

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Add the ability to manually tune DB2_HADR_HANG_DETECTION

Currently DB2_HADR_HANG_DETECTION is set internally and can't be configured. Customer's environments may involve slower responding components and may result in Db2 triggering the hang detection even though the system isn't hung. It would be useful...
8 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

CSV or Delimited result set function in SQL

My result set final format needs to be CSV. It would be awesome if I could use SELECT CSV(*) FROM TABLEA to return my result set as a column of CSV format. so for instance I have a requirement to produce a csv file of variable record lengths SELEC...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 0 Future consideration

Future Function (eg EFA) Availability about Db2 pS on AWS

Escalation for future function availability by Aug-2024: 1. Support AWS EFA as pureScale private networking (CF communication) 2. Support AWS io2be(Block Express) as Storage device
8 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 0

Auto-pruning for automatic DB2 Backups

The DB2 LUW automatic backup creation, which is enabled by the parameters AUTO_MAINT and AUTO_DB_BACKUP and configured by the 'AUTO_BACKUP' maintenance policy XML, currently does not consider the db2 automatic pruning functionality, configured by ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0

Please add a built-in function to reverse a string

Currently to reverse a string, we have to create a udf. The syntax for a simple one was easily available on the SQLTips4Db2 blog .... which IBM has removed. I think Db2 on z has this, and some other variants of SQL out there include it. This is th...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Please add a built-in function for pi

Currently there is no built-in function for pi. It can be calculated using math on trigonometric functions, but this is mildly annoying. Pi is frequently used when working with different random variate distributions and other functions that are in...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

support for Decimal128 data type in nosqljson driver

please refer to case link below https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002mdjpkAAA/data-conversion-issue-when-loading-mongo-json-into-db2?language=en_US sample record in import file {"_id":{"$oid":"5a15e486cf8e89614439bf9d"},"dealerCode":"200...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

DMC format for time metrics needs to be smarter for values bellow ms range

This started as a discussion in IBM Db2 community. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/hybriddatamanagement/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?GroupId=2983&MessageKey=8802cd2f-d91d-46aa-a114-aa6cc5ec88df&CommunityKey=e...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Perform rebuild of each index (for a table) in its own transaction

In the current design, all the index rebuilds for a table are performed within the same transaction (as the action that triggered them). If the transaction is interrupted (e.g. user interrupt or dropped session), then the entire transaction is rol...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Not under consideration

support "fixed record length" for load/import with UTF8

Load and import do not support "fixed record length" for MBCS.The field offsets have to be specified in bytes only.There is no possibility to let the data movement tools "think in letters, instead of bytes".
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration