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My votes: Db2

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Enhance functionality of WITH clause to operate with DELETE and UPDATE in DB2 SQL statements like others flavours of SQL

Our team uses IBM DB2 11.1.4.4 Database Server for development activities. We see limitations of DB2 SQL WITH clause to work with only SELECT unlike other flavors of SQL like T-SQL which operates other DML operations. Just like how WITH simplifi...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server Driver Package Trace requires Local Admin Right

Can you please do an enhancement so that IBM Data Server Driver Package does not require a Local Admin Access to take the trace, just like DB2 Connect before?This is such a pain to have the Local Admin access granted these days. JPMorgan Chase and...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Backup and Log Archive into private Clouds ownCloud/Nextcloud

Backup and Log Archive into a Cloud Storage
about 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

NOT NULL limitation violation of VARCHAR2 in case federated SELECT ''(empty charactor) from Oracle compati Db2 to Native Db2

[Situation]There is a federated system between VARCHAR2 compatibility off w/ NOT NULL limitation column defined table (actual source table) and VARCHAR2 compatibility on w/ NOT NULL limitation column defined nick name (federated) table.[Current de...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Diag Lookup Tool

Provide a tool on IBM Support that show a better explanation of the message on db2diag.log according to the message. Some db2diag messages are difficult to understand.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Handle DECIMAL values with a precision greater than 31

Sprint's Hadoop/Hive environment supports DECIMAL values with precision > 31. To enable their users to use these columns in BigSQL, BigSQL needs to support this. (Salesforce case TS002907694)
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

built-in and OLAP functions are not stored in the catalogs hence SPSS modeller is facing challenges fetching

Incompatibility between using Netezza and Db2 products. Both UDFs (User Defined Function) and built-in functions and OLAPs are available in the case of Netezza, but in the case of IIAS (IBM Integrated Analytics System) / Db2 only UDF is available ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

db2 luw restore to avoid O_SYNC writes on the tablespace containers and perform a final fsync()

db2 luw restore performance is very slow. The problem was identified and recommended solution is to avoid O_SYNC writes on the tablespace containers and perform a final fsync() From: David Sciaraffa Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 6:57 PMTo: R...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

on DB2 LUW , Create all indexes on nicknames, including those with key greater than 1024 bytes

When I create a nickname on a remote table with an index and the index key is greater than 1024 bytes, the index spécification is not created on the local database : There is no warning for this when the nickname is created, nothing in db2diag.log...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Future consideration

Read access on the database in rollforward pending

Enable to select a table when a database is still in rollforward pending (at the end of a rollforward without the clause stop or complete)
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration