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Db2

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Viewing of corrupted pages by SELECTing of catalog.

DB2 doesn't allow viewing of corrupted pages by SELECTing of catalog (like V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION in Oracle). The current workaround is:1) Execution of offline db2dart 2) OR the online INSPECT.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Automatic bad pages' repair on Primary DB in HADR environment.

In HADR env. which is running the primary and the standby database(s), when a bad page will appear in the Primary database – DB2 will be able to identify and repair the bad page, while the recovery can be easily based on the good copy of the pag...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

RECOVER the database into the Alternate location.

We have a lot of cases when we need to RECOVER the database to the alternate location/paths. The RECOVER command doesn't support the relocation of the database.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

New ARCHIVE LAG TARGET parameter request.

DB2 doesn't have the parameter which will ensure that each archived log file contains no more than n seconds of changes (like Oracle's ARCHIVE_LAG_TARGET), for example, 1800 seconds. So, if DB2 will fill up the log file before the expiration of 18...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Purescale - Event Monitor for Locking - Include member information

In Purescale environment, with currently commited enabled and CS isolation query, we can find situations where a "select" receives a locktimeout depending on which member the connection comes. But, event monitor for locking doesn't include this in...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Update db2haicu to create network equivalencies as dynamic

From PMR 65315.999.866: In determining our HADR configuration, and from running the utility "db2tsacheck" it's been recommended to convert our network equivalency resources from static to dynamic. This allows the interface resource to persist in c...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Hybrid blu column / row tables

Create a new table type wich allow to mix row / column organized table.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

DBM parameter just for DB2diag file

Currently we have db2diag files as part of dbm parameter (DIAGPATH) and all the files (db2diag.log, events,nfy,bin,stack,stmm,dump) going into the same directory. The challenge is in case of issues, we see huge dump files produced (sometimes 40gb ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Control query parallelism by estimated SQL cost

Competing products (Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server) provide the ability to configure query optimizer in a way that it considers using query parallelism only when query complexity exceeds the configured threshold. DB2 lacks that capability, ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server .Net Provider Support For Informix Types TEXT, BYTE and BOOLEAN

We are in the process of moving from .Net Framework to .Net Core. We currently use the Informix Client SDK ADO.Net drivers to access Informix databases using ADO.Net. When we tried to migrate to the IBM Data Server Driver (IBM.Data.DB2.dll) we fou...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration