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Db2

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GENERIC 'MINDIVSCALE 9' support in db2 luw

DB2 z/os supports the 'MINDIVSCALE 9' , which makes the decimal scale up to 9 for any arithmetic operations. However DB2 luw supports up to 6 using 'DB2_MIN_DEC_DIV_6=YES' in registry.User applications are bounded with GENERIC 'MINDIVSCALE 9' In K...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Delivered

DB2 PureScale for Linux on z

On behalf of several customers, we need to see a PureScale version of DB2 running on Linux on z. Whilst these customers run large DB2 for z/OS estates, they also require HA services for the distributed version used by IBM Products MDM and BPM, oth...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Delivered

Do not overwrite db2setup.log

During installation DB2 writes to db2setup.log. If installation is started a second time the previously created file db2setup.log is overwritten and all the information of the previous install attempts is lost. If installation routine would rename...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Delivered

Support LOB data types for DB2 BLU

DB2 BLU still doesn't support LOB related data types. Some existing databases in DB2 or other RDBMS, such as Oracle, need to be migrated to DB2 BLU and contain some tables with LOB data types. Without LOB data types support for DB2 BLU, they have ...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration / Data Types 0 Delivered

Tiebreak disk as second quorum mecanism for clusters with DB2 + HADR + TSAMP

Customer have some DB2 cluster with HADR and TSAMP. By default this kind of cluster uses network quorum as tiebreaker mechanism. And there is not a secondary mechanism to verify the quorum state of the cluster if any issue affect the gateway or th...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Delivered

DB2 BLU limitations on LUW

We have 10.3 data mart running LUW 10.1 on linux. The mart is 98% read only with a small batch cycle that updates the mart with real time updates. We want to move this to BLU for the performance. Most fo the schema we change with oit issue. We ran...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 1 Delivered

increase DB2 sector size used to write to disks from 512 to 4096

We would like DB2 to use a larger sector size when writing to disks. We uncovered a performance issue when working with DSSD from EMC where to achieve the maximum write throughput a 4096 sector size is required, Db2 currently uses 512 sectors. MS ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Delivered

Officially document DB2_SELECTIVITY=ALL parameter setting

The query compiler statement DB2_SELECTIVITY is only documented to allow setting it to either YES or NO. However, YES is quite limited as you can only use the SELECTIVITY statement on predicates that include host variables or parameter markers. Th...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Delivered

pureScale improved cluster wide free space management

This customer used to use appilication on DB2 for z but moved it to on DB2 for AIX.There was no problem when using DB2 for z but some performance issues happened since using DB2 pureScale.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Delivered

Add support for passing rowchangetimestampoverride filetype modifiers to admin_move_table(RIMS)

My customer, Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, makes extensive use of the admin_move_table utility and uses the rowchangetimetamp feature on columns in several thousand large tables with thousand millions of rows. These rowchangetimestamp will be used f...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Delivered