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Db2

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Vmotion support for pureScale

Currently State Farm uses Vmotion 5.5 in their VMware environment, which enables the live migration of running virtual machines from one physical server to another with zero downtime in their VMware environment. PureScale currently does not suppor...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Simplify shadow tables replication

Integrate the CDC engine in the DB2 engine and allow to configure the replication with SQL commands.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

List node & db directory using SQL

Create two new functions to list the content of the database and node directory.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Declarative RI for Db2 LUW Bitemporal tables

it would be good to implement Bi-temporal Period Containment with declarative RI in Db2 LUW
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

ADM7007E - Logging The Process holding the database port when this error is logged in the diag could help us better for RCA

Part of critical Protection mode Restart, TSAMP has issued ipclean where the instance restart was not clean due to the below message in the logs. MESSAGE : ADM7007E The SVCENAME DBM configuration parameter, "50000", is configured with a port or a ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Restore with a new table name

Add a new feature to allow to restore tablespaces with new names of tablespaces and tables
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

create new TS type called staging or workarea

Create a new Tablespace type called staging. Any objects in this TS will not be backed up or logged.
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LOAD/IMPORT should support z/OS

With DB2 Connect you can easily execute DDL from a remote workstation to create/modify existing z/OS DB Objects. However, when you need to delete and recreate tables while keeping the data (and ALTER ist not an option) it is necessary to open a TS...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

allow "COMMENT ON" statement to add comments longer than 254-char to 2000

254-char long field too small to store comments attached to added objects (views, nicknames, columns, indices) when apps migrated from ORACLE to DB2
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Automatically detect and uncompress NX842 compressed files in LOGPATH, OVERFLOWLOGPATH, etc.

Sometimes when after databases using a redirected restore from an online backup or db2inidb from a flash copy we are requested to copy log files from source directly into the target LOGPATH or OVERFLOWLOGPATH so that a roll forward can successfull...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Compression 1 Functionality already exists