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DGTT ON COMMIT DROP OPTION

DB2 z/os supports that DGTT tabe can be drop on commit. My customer who is migrating to db2 luw want to drop table on commit as well.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

KnowledgeCentrer on Docker

Sometimes the knowledgeCenter is not reacheable or it is not working for different reasons, and the access for the documentation becomes an issue. For this reason, I suggest to have the KnowledgeCenter downloadable as a Docker image, as it was pos...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Support DECFLOAT in federated data type mapping between Db2 and Db2 for z/OS

Add support for the DECFLOAT data type allowing NICKNAME creation against a Db2 for z/OS table with a DECFLOAT column. Without this support, the CREATE NICKNAME fails and a workaround is required to map the data.
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Fluid Query 0 Not under consideration

Parallelize the logs in the online backup image

If you have a large amount of transaction logs created during an online backup operation, and logs are include in the backup image, at the end of the backup Db2 adds the log files to the backup file. Right now it appears to be a serialized operati...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Load utility performance is very slow with the large bufferpool size

System: e-tax systemActor: User feels a bad performance of DB2 load utility DB2 V10.5 is a commonly used product that provides electric tax system.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

db2haicu and the Wirelistener

If the WireListerner is required for JSON/MongoDB, DB2haicu should support it instead of making a TSAMP policy outside of db2haicu.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Direct read of Archive logs from TSM server when using db2 rollforward on crossnode restore operations

Usually our Db2 backups to TSM. Occasionally we restore a Db2 system in another operating center from where we have to access to the TSM server for Restore/rollforward. In the target environment the Db2 archive logs are extracted via db2adutl afte...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Functionality already exists

Allow SELECT INTO to assign query results to Local Variables within a Function/Procedure

When trying to assign a query result to local variables within a PROCEDURE or FUNCTION using Dynamic SQL only a DYNAMIC CURSOR (see below) can be used which leads to more complicated and lengthy code. However, using SELECT INTO (see below) could b...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Allow Table-Valued-Function (TVF) within DB2 SQL PL Module

Within a SQL PL MODULE, a Table-Valued-Function/TVF cannot be created, but outside of a MODULE, this can be done. This seems to be a restriction on MODULE functionality given that they are an analog to PL/SQL PACKAGES. Our request is to allow the ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Not under consideration

creating a nickname of a DB2i series table when it have indexes using expressions

hi, there is a limitation of the DB2 federation, it is impossible to create a nickname to a DB2i table if it has an index using expression https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/drda-wrapper-returns-sql0901n-index-column-name-not-found-search-1-while-c...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Fluid Query 0 Not under consideration