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Add bulk insert feature to the Db2 federation

Db2 Federation offers different types of wrappers to transfer data from a source database to a target database. For the federation from Db2 LUW to Oracle we tried the JDBC, NET8 and ODBC wrapper, but all wrappers process the rows one by one. To ge...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 3 Not under consideration

Fill gap with Oracle optimizer on RP tables

DB2 optimizer in v10.5/v11.1 has still several weaknesses in generating correct plan when using RP tables, because it bases its plan only on global stats when partition (data and indexes) stats are available. Case TS001150102
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Not under consideration

DB2 HADR Standby Database act as CDC Source

We use DB2 ,DB2 HADR and CDC in our production system. Now we can only use the DB2 HADR primary database as CDC source. DB2 HADR standby database can not support acting as CDC source now. So we hope add a new feature,ie : DB2 HADR Standby database...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 2 Not under consideration

DB2_BAR_STATS table view

Add a table view for the bar stats output
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Reorg on criteria

Add new option to allow the reorg utility to discard / keep rows during the reorganization
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Enable access of hidden columns with federation

Basically, federation is a client application of the data source, so what the database expose to client is seeable for federation. As for the hidden column, it's designed not visible to client, the hidden column is not able to be fetched from the ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 1 Not under consideration

Temporal Table extension for Auditing and Interface Design

Add functionality to allow the use of temporal tables for auditing purposes by adding functionality like in Db2 for z/OS: - A column GENERATED ALWAYS AS (DATA CHANGE OPERATION)- ON DELTE ADD EXTRA ROW functionality to record who deleted a rowIn co...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Online restore of a range partition. Db2 takes a lock on the whole table during the restore.

I have a range partition table with NO global indexes. The partitions have their own tablespaces. Db2 takes a Z lock on the whole table when restoring a single partition.We thought that we could restore a partition online and that all the other pa...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

INSTANCE_MEMORY AUTOMATIC should be automatic, not calculated

The default value of the INSTANCE_MEMORY parameter is AUTOMATIC. The AUTOMATIC setting results in a value that is computed at database partition activation. This behavior is inflexible regarding dynamic memory changes e.g. for AIX LPARs. Today it ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Integrity Validation of SW and Updates

In order to complain with the Security Framework Controls of a product which uses Db2 connect SW the following requirement should be fullfilled: "Before applying the software and security updates, their legitimate source should be validated and in...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 2 Planned for future release