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Database activation should carry separate security authority

ACTIVATE DATABASE should be a separate GRANTed authority.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Catalog command with comment string length 30 chars is too short

Catalog command with comment string limit of 30 chars is too short. The examples in the knowledge center document use longer strings.We use the string to contain our FQDN server names and often the limit enforces us to short names.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Rename table does not execute a drop-create of the foreign keys.

If there are constraints on table, "rename" table results SQL0750. There is no easy way to rename table like other DBMS in Db2.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

In IDA, enhance the graphic rectangle functionality

Currently, the rectangle symbol is limited. Text can only be aligned Left-Middle-Right. Also, some other symbols fall "behind" the rectangle when it is moved to the very back of the order, specifically dependency symbols.
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

External Table handle CRLF in data

The EXTERNAL TABLE capability of DB2 Warehouse cannot handle CSV files that contain CRLF characters in the data when the record delimiter is also CRLF. This is a very common, RFC4180 compliant format (see 2.6) that is produced when saving as CSV f...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Db2Warehouse on Cloud temporary tablespaces

・Db2Warehouse on Cloud temporary tablespaces ・ Function improvement request target: Db2Warehouse on Cloud ・ Request A specific SQL process causes the entire DB to stop. I want you to improve this. ・ Details If SQL that uses a lot of temporar...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

New NOT NULL columns cannot be added to an empty table without a default value.

Submitted on behalf of Gregor Hack (ghack@zeb.de). New NOT NULL columns cannot be added to an empty table without a default value (WITH DEFAULT). Customer currently sets a dummy default value, which they drop afterwards.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Knowledge center should load content of previous and next articles automatically

When navigating the Knowledge Center, it is necessary to click on the left panel every single article. Some of them are very short to read, and it takes a lot of time to reload the whole page just for a single article. It would be easy if by click...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Fix to enable pureScale support with Red Hat KVM on Power

There is a PCI Passthrough issue on Red Hat KVM that would probably not be fixed by Red Hat until V7.4 at the earliest. LTC has proposed an alternative approach to avoid the contention that pureScale is using PCI Passthrough to address.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Be able to ALTER the partitioning key of a UTS PBR

Currently if the partitioning key needs to be changed this involves a UNLOAD/DROP/CREATE/LOAD which is disruptive. This needs to be changed to ALTER REORG.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

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