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DB2 to add support for Oracle functions after compatibility vector is set to ORA

1. DB2 does not support sys_guid() function even after oracle vector is being set. 2. DB2 does not support DBMS_SESSION 3. FROM_TZ function is not supported. 4. REGEXP_REPLACE is not supported
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Assign an event monitor to a threshold

Assign an event monitor to one to many thresholds by specifying an event monitor name during the threshold creation.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of View syscat.bufferpools to show alos stmm bufferpool sizes

When a bufferpool size is set to AUTOMATIC, -2 is being retrieved fromsyscat.bufferpools. But customer wants the current number of pages ofautomatic settings also displayed in syscat.bufferpools. Also a new column insyscat.bufferpools should indic...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Adjusting column status in syscat.tables by synchronizing with column AVAILABLE SYSIBMADM.ADMINTABINFO

Customer mentions that tables which are delivering aSQL1477N should have an inoperative status. But theyhave status 'N' (for normal) insyscat.tables. The only way to retrieve the status of anSQL1477N is to select the column AVAILABLE inSYSIBMADM.A...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

To relax DB2 primary group of instance naming restrictions

My organization has all the users and Groups on active directory. The groups on active directory always get prefixed by some characters which are in Upper case due to the type of group we are requesting. Also addition of this prefix add more chara...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

To relax DB2 primary group of instance naming restrictions

My organization has all the users and Groups on active directory. The groups on active directory always get prefixed by some characters which are in Upper case due to the type of group we are requesting. Also addition of this prefix add more chara...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

terminate rollback

When database is rollback a long transaction , it may take a long time. User don't want to wait for rollback to finish. One scenario is that user has made a large change on a table that is not that important table so they are willing to drop it (...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Syntax diagrams in KnowledgeCenter with links for subsections

The syntax diagrams in 11.5 have been changed for good. They are easier to understand and to follow the lines. However, the navigation in the diagram is still difficult (no improvements yet). One has to use the Find option of the browser to look f...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Logical Backup

Create “loadable” files foe objects rather than table space dumps. Only base table contents, no indexes
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Migration from SMS/Raw to AS

How to move the thousands DBs which use a combination of SMS (syscatspace) and RAW to full automatic storage. Some DBs are 100+TB so unload/load is not an option. Need a date for elimination of SMS/RAW support to determine our priotiy!
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration